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The Ayrshire Legatees; Or, The Pringle Family

John Galt (1779–1839)

Project Gutenberg #1384 · EN · 49,793 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, flowing rhythm
  • LLM: dry, comic, epistolary, warmly provincial
  • Crowd: not derived yet — placeholder colour
  • Blend: Blended 40% algorithmic + 60% llm

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Bar heights are the relative frequency of the 28 most common English function words — a small, stable per-book signature.

Stylometry

Words
50,520
Sentences
1,316
Mean sentence length
38.4 words (std 26.1, p50 33, p90 70)
MTLD (vocab richness)
97.6
Type-token ratio
0.133
Commas / 1k
95.3
Periods / 1k
24.0
Semicolons / 1k
12.6
Colons / 1k
0.5
Question marks / 1k
1.0
Exclamation marks / 1k
1.0
Em-dashes / 1k
5.8
Parentheses / 1k
0.2

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