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F. Burton Howard

7 talks between 1978 and 2003, mostly as Seventy. 11,289 words in the transcripts.

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Talks

1978–2003

Words

11,289

in the transcripts

Reading grade

9.5

Flesch–Kincaid, average

Scriptures cited

6.0 per talk

Callings

Seventy

7 talks

Leadership record

linked

in the leadership database

Talks by year

19782003

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.

eternal marriage 9
didn’t 16
don’t 21
crystal 6
blamed 5
forgiven 11
repentance 21
game 8
hide 7
somehow 7
destination 6
hel 5

Scriptures cited most

Doctrine and Covenants7
Helaman5
Matthew4
Luke4
Genesis4
1 Nephi3
Alma2
2 Nephi2

Callings when speaking

Seventy 7

As given in the bylines: Of the First Quorum of the Seventy · Of the Seventy

Every talk

Oct 1978Be One with the ProphetOf the First Quorum of the Seventy · Saturday Afternoon Session273 w0 refs
Apr 1981In Saving Others We Save OurselvesOf the First Quorum of the Seventy · Sunday Afternoon Session1,592 w4 refs
Apr 1983RepentanceOf the First Quorum of the Seventy · Sunday Morning Session2,195 w6 refs
Oct 1986Come Back to the LordOf the First Quorum of the Seventy · Sunday Afternoon Session2,067 w6 refs
Apr 1991RepentanceOf the Seventy · Saturday Morning Session1,789 w20 refs
Apr 1996CommitmentOf the Seventy · Saturday Afternoon Session1,525 w3 refs
Apr 2003Eternal MarriageOf the Seventy · Sunday Afternoon Session1,848 w3 refs

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