User:BudjarnLambeth/Survey of named and unnamed commas: Difference between revisions

* '''Large comma: 21''' (4%)

* '''Medium comma: 91''' (16%)

* '''Small comma: 220''' (40%)

* '''Unnoticeable: 219''' (40%)

* '''1990s: 2''' (0%)

* '''2000s: 57''' (8%)

* '''2010s: 53''' (7%)

* '''2020s: 378''' (52%)

* '''Unknown: ~240''' (33%)

Every theorist who has named 4 or more commas:

# '''Xenllium: 143''' (19.5%)

# '''Gene W Smith: 38''' (5%)

# '''Eliora: 30''' (4%)

# '''Dawson Berry: 26''' (3.5%)

# '''Flora Canou: 26''' (3.5%)

# '''Paul Erlich: 23''' (3%)

# '''Petr Pařízek: 23''' (3%)

# '''B Lambeth: 20''' (3%)

# '''Francium: 16''' (2%)

# '''Kaiveran: 14''' (2%)

'''Trivia:''' Xenllium has named more commas than the next 5 theorists on the list combined

* '''Regular temperament properties: 172''' (31%)

** '''The intervals the comma stacks: 73''' (13%)

** '''Combining two temperament names: 27''' (5%)

** '''The generator of the assoc. temperament: 7''' (1%)

** '''How the comma divides the fifth: 5''' (1%)

** '''How the comma divides the fourth: 3''' (0.5%)

** '''Other properties: 57''' (10%)

* '''Individuals: ~115''' (21%)

* '''The comma's interval size: 43''' (8%)

* '''Asteroids: 32''' (6%)

* '''Place names: 21''' (4%)

* '''A famous occurrence of a number: 20''' (0.35%)

* '''Non-English words: 17''' (3%)

* '''Musical traditions: 16''' (3%)

* '''Plays on the color name: 7''' (1%)

* '''Personal events: 6''' (1%)

* '''Pieces of music: 5''' (1%)

* '''Something else: 17''' (3%)

* '''Etymology unknown: 124''' (22.5%)

* '''Systematic name only/not named: 29''' (5%)

'''Trivia:''' There are two commas named after individual cats: the ampersand comma, and the junebug comma. There do not appear to be any named after individual dogs. Not so far, anyway. The field is still young.