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The Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913)

Project Gutenberg #972 · EN · 60,109 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: balanced tone, rich vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: sardonic, ornate, darkly comic, ironic
  • Crowd: not derived yet — placeholder colour
  • Blend: Blended 40% algorithmic + 60% llm

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Bar heights are the relative frequency of the 28 most common English function words — a small, stable per-book signature.

Stylometry

Words
61,043
Sentences
3,241
Mean sentence length
18.8 words (std 13.8, p50 16, p90 34)
MTLD (vocab richness)
103.9
Type-token ratio
0.180
Commas / 1k
77.4
Periods / 1k
47.3
Semicolons / 1k
6.0
Colons / 1k
3.6
Question marks / 1k
1.8
Exclamation marks / 1k
3.5
Em-dashes / 1k
6.2
Parentheses / 1k
4.0

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