On Mon, 15 May 2006, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > For example, /The Gypsy/ has 97,036 words (9,035 words per dollar), > and rates 79.7 on the Flesch Index (whatever that is - I suppose I > could look it up). I'm going to guess it's a readability measure. Yep: http://www.gopdg.com/plainlanguage/readability.html "It measures reading from 100 (for easy to read) to 0 (for very difficult to read). A zero score indicates text has more than 37 words on the average in each sentence and the average word is more than 2 syllables. Flesch has identified a "65" as the Plain English Score. In response to demand, Flesch also provided an interpretation table to convert the scale to estimated reading grade and estimated school grade completed."