Why isn’t ‘monosyllabic’ a shorter word?

by Allan Jenkins on May 26, 2006

Scott Baradell asks Which Media, Marketing, or PR Blog is the Most Readable, and goes on to answer the question by applying the Gunning-Fog readability index, as calculated at the JuicyStudio site. Most of our colleagues score in the 8-11 range, which means you need 8 to 11 years of education to make
out what we are nattering on about.

Desirable Roasted Coffee was not in Scott’s survey, but the ever-helpful Stuart Bruce put DRC on his list. Desirable Roasted Coffee scores 10.24, with 1.65 syllables a word, and 7.73 words a sentence. Well, you can call me wordy. But I am less wordy than my erudite friends Kami Huyse (10.51: 1.53 syllables a word, 12.59 words per sentence) and Lee
Hopkins
(10.94, 1.53 syllables a word, 13.54 words per sentence).

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