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Bruce D. Porter

2 speeches between 2008 and 2012, mostly as Seventy. 6,601 words in the transcripts.

Speeches
2
2008–2012
Words
6,601
in the transcripts
Reading grade
10.0
Flesch–Kincaid, average
Scriptures cited
18
9.0 per speech
Callings
Seventy
2 speeches
Leadership record
linked
in the leadership database

Speeches by year

20082012

Signature phrases

Words and two-word phrases this speaker uses far more than the rest of the corpus, by weighted log-odds. Stop words, names of deity and the ordinary vocabulary of a sermon are excluded.

  • prayer 40
  • bethlehem 10
  • passover 9
  • birth 14
  • captives 5
  • rooms 7
  • heartfelt 7
  • tidings 5
  • jerusalem 11
  • paris 5
  • isaiah 11
  • hotel 6

Scriptures cited most

  • Isaiah6
  • Doctrine and Covenants5
  • Moroni1
  • 2 Nephi1
  • 2 Timothy1
  • Micah1
  • Luke1
  • Psalms1

Callings when speaking

  • Seventy 2

As given in the bylines: of the Seventy

Every speech

  1. 9 Dec 2008A Child Is Bornof the Seventy · Devotional3,178 w12 refs
  2. 4 Dec 2012“Did You Think to Pray?”of the Seventy · Devotional3,423 w6 refs
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