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Mary Ellen Smoot

3 speeches between 1998 and 2002. 15,235 words in the transcripts.

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Speeches

1998–2002

Words

15,235

in the transcripts

Reading grade

9.1

Flesch–Kincaid, average

Scriptures cited

8.0 per speech

Callings

—

Leadership record

—

not a General Authority or officer on record

Speeches by year

19982002

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.

cannot buy 10
money cannot 9
parley 11
vehicle 9
baal 6
elijah 11
visibility 6
family 60
road signs 5
napoleon 5
problem solving 5
right direction 6

Scriptures cited most

1 Kings6
Doctrine and Covenants5
Matthew2
John2
Esther1
3 Nephi1
Romans1
Deuteronomy1

Every speech

10 Feb 1998The Superhighway of LifeDevotional4,730 w9 refs
14 Nov 2000Seeking for SolutionsDevotional4,193 w4 refs
3 Feb 2002Everything Money Cannot BuyDevotional6,312 w11 refs

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