<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr">NPR review of Benjamin Bratt's <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_9279">Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve: That the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing </i>notes that Virginia Woolf is the writer who uses the fewest cliches.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr">In her nine novels, she also uses 116 -ly adverbs per 10,000 words.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr">The most masculine classic novel written by a woman is her <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_12508">Orlando.</i></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr"><i><br></i></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr"><i>The Waves</i> is the #1 book with the most 2-word anaphora: 5.5%.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr">Bratt includes much more as well (Jim Haule take note!).</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr">Cheers--</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr">Karen Levenback</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_18979"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_18980">.</i></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr"><i><br></i></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490958202283_5531" dir="ltr"><br></div></div></body></html>