Tremendous Trifles

words removed
56,337
marks left
8,369
words a sentence
20.2
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: Harriet Martineau, Florence Fenwick Miller. More twins

G. K. Chesterton on the shelf

6 books by G. K. Chesterton are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 5th closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for W. E. B. Du Bois. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, G. K. Chesterton's punctuation is closest to Una L. Silberrad's.

G. K. Chesterton's average fingerprint

G. K. Chesterton on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookG. K. Chesterton's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.09.87.2
Commas50.666.976.6
Colons1.21.61.6
Exclamation marks0.71.72.8
Question marks2.24.23.7
Words per sentence20.220.117.0
Dialogue14%40%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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