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L. Douglas Smoot
1 speech between 1994 and 1994, mostly as BYU leadership. 4,801 words in the transcripts.
Speeches
1
1994
Words
4,801
in the transcripts
Reading grade
9.4
Flesch–Kincaid, average
Scriptures cited
15
15.0 per speech
Callings
BYU leadership
1 speeches
Leadership record
linked
in the leadership database
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.
- smoot 8
- happy state 5
- job 12
- afflictions 6
- i’ve 11
- joy 16
- promises 8
- somehow 6
- trials 7
- remarkable 7
- scripture 9
- challenges 9
Scriptures cited most
- Job4
- Alma3
- Doctrine and Covenants3
- 2 Nephi2
- Mosiah1
- Matthew1
- Ether1
Callings when speaking
- BYU leadership 1
As given in the bylines: Dean of the College of Engineering and Technology
Every speech
- 7 Jun 1994The Two Great PromisesDean of the College of Engineering and Technology · Devotional4,801 w15 refs