Saturday, April 06, 2013
WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE
It has been a while since I conducted a "readability test" on the blog.
So, first thing this morning, before the blog woke up, I did a run through here. Juicy Studios. There are other sites but this is the one I have always used.
If you want to know what these scores mean go to the site.
Based on 630 total sentences, more or less randomly selected with 6116 total words, the average words per sentence were 9.71.
Yes. This is intentional. I try to write short, punchy active sentences. Blog sentences.
There are 4465 words of one syllable, 1114 words with two syllables, 387 words with three syllables and 150 sentences with 4 or more syllables.
This means there are 8.78% words with over three syllables, and an average syllable per word count of 1.38.
Rather readable.
The Gunning Fog Index is the grade level that a reader would have for good comprehension. This blog is good for the 7.4 grade.
The Flesch Reading Ease result it 80.04. Authors are encouraged to aim for a score of approximately 60 to 70. A little high here.
On the other hand the Flesch-Kincaid Grade is only 4.51. Like the Gunning-Fog index, it is a rough measure of how many years of schooling it would take someone to understand the content.
Here are some examples of Fog indices for some works. TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain are at 8. Most popular novels=10. The New York Times is 14. Academic papers usually 15-20. Government sites=20. It says that if there is a Fog over 30, someone is covering something up.
So, you don't have to be much of a reader to get through this. It is easier than the Times.
There is nothing to do with this. Just watch the fog roll in and out.
