"I have not sufficiently mastered German, to allow my using it with impunity. My collection of fourteen-syllable German words is still incomplete. But I have just added to that collection a jewel—a veritable jewel. I found it in a telegram from Linz, and it contains ninety-five letters:
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If I could get a similar word engraved upon my tombstone I should sleep beneath it in peace."
The above graph shows the frequency of the most common outlier words used by Twain in his speeches. These are words that appeared in his 100 most used words list, but not in the list of 100 most used words in the English language. Twain's outliers are not quite as obviously interesting as the others, but there is some information to glean from this graph. The word "Mr." appears quite often becuase Twain's speeches were often about specific people that he would name. Similarly, the words "said," "says," and "year" are so common because Twain often told stories in his speeches. We can also assume that Twain's speeches had a generally positive tone due to the prevelence of the words "good" and "great."
The above graph shows the overall frequency of the most common English words as opposed to their frequency in Twain's speeches. We see that the words "and," "you," "I," "to," and "but" are much more frequent in Twain's speeches than in general language. We also see that the words "of" and "in" are much less frequently used in Twain's speeches. Other than that, none of these results are especially surprising.