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New study: Democrats far better than Republicans at grammar [View all]
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
A new study analyzing the grammar of comments posted on presidential candidate Facebook pages finds that Republicans tend to butcher the English language at twice the rate of Democrats.
The study by the grammar-checking app Grammarly found that GOP supporters made an average of 8.7 mistakes per 100 words compared to 4.2 mistakes for Democratic supporters.
The Dems also had the bigger vocabulary, with 300 unique words used on average compared to 245 for Republicans.
... The prize for worst grammar of all went to Donald Trump supporters with 12.6 mistakes per 100 words.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Democrats-far-better-than-Republicans-at-grammar-6554179.php
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