The written word
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- Thu Jul 11 2002

Have a little read: ... The written word Introduction: Aim to find if there is a difference in word length between an American news paper and a British paper. I chose 2 political articles that are about the same and systematically chose 66 words from each article by selecting every 5th word using statistical analysis. Here are all the words that I chose from the American paper and the British paper: USA Today Mail on Sunday Is Cabinet Efforts Majesty Of At Experts Eye That Ostensibly A During Overthrow Domestic Ruled And Two Considered House Relaunch Confirm Into Is Considered CIA And Have Their Area Public British Been Our Whole Administration Exotic Than The The Even An On That Israeli The New Increasing A National Of Whose A The United Provide In Official Lobbying Will Against To There Convene Of Detectors Hussein Or American They Decide Hundred Wholesale Serving Is The Threat Other After Of This Troops Surprise If After If Merly It Of Among Pentagon Saudi The A A Further Rogue Director United Overthrow Naturally Said That CIA Considered Many Afghanistan Cannistraro Its Approved Account While And Not Is Report Approach The This Iraq Occur Axis Political It Putting To Grievances Destruction Own Involves Parts Tally Chart Here are the tally charts: USA Today Tally Chart Word Length Tally Frequency Cumulative Frequency 1 2 2 2 12 14 3 10 24 4 11 35 5 7 42 6 2 44 7 10 54 8 6 60 9 2 62 10 1 63 11 2 65 12 0 65 13 0 65 14 1 66 Mail on Sunday Tally Chart Word Length Tally Frequency Cumulative Frequency 1 3 3 2 9 12 3 9 21 4 6 27 5 9 36 6 7 43 7 7 50 8 7 57 9 4 61 10 5 66 11 0 66 12 0 66 Average Word Length USA Today Mode: 2 Median: 2 Mean: 4.7 Range: 12 Mail on Sunday Mode: 2, 3, 5 Median: 6.5 Mean: 5.5 Range: 9 Cumulative Frequency Here is a graph for the USA Today newspaper. Here is a graph for Mail on Sunday newspaper.
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