Article 2PSZZ Ranking authors by their adverb use

Ranking authors by their adverb use

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Cory Doctorow
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The famously spare Hemingway used 80 words ending in -ly per 10,000 words of prose; JK Rowling uses 140 adverbs per 10,000 words, and EL James uses 155. (more")

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