David Hoover — a skilled stylometrist, and therefore a great lover of lists—likes to play a game with his students in which he shows them a list of novels and asks them to rank them according to “vocabulary richness” (defined as the largest number of different words per fifty-thousand-word block)

Well, I can now see why ABC did not hop on the boards here to try and quell the disquiet the 'wedding' arc caused. A) because there is no wedding in the arc, and B) The episode isn't quite the WAFF one might expect.

Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.

A little bit of cash now means more to the boys than the promise of a fortune who knows when. Bird in the hand, and all […]