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Royden G. Derrick

3 speeches between 1979 and 1983, mostly as Seventy. 15,409 words in the transcripts.

Speeches
3
1979–1983
Words
15,409
in the transcripts
Reading grade
9.1
Flesch–Kincaid, average
Scriptures cited
58
19.3 per speech
Callings
Seventy
3 speeches
Leadership record
linked
in the leadership database

Speeches by year

19791983

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.

  • doug 39
  • concepts 43
  • johnny 15
  • bolivia 12
  • defile 12
  • espouse 9
  • snarr 7
  • idaho falls 7
  • stuttering 6
  • eyring 14
  • derrick 6
  • equilibrium 6

Scriptures cited most

  • Doctrine and Covenants22
  • 3 Nephi8
  • Matthew5
  • Moses4
  • Alma4
  • 1 Corinthians4
  • John3
  • Mark2

Callings when speaking

  • Seventy 3

As given in the bylines: of the Seventy

Every speech

  1. 15 May 1979The True Value Systemof the Seventy · Devotional4,560 w8 refs
  2. 26 Oct 1980Gospel Conceptsof the Seventy · Devotional5,945 w22 refs
  3. 14 Jun 1983Agencyof the Seventy · Devotional4,904 w28 refs
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