(% diff indicates percentage difference of the the expected value for this word type from the actual word count. Negative numbers indicate that editorialists used this type less often than expected; a postive percentage means they used this type more often than expected.)
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| Grammatical Type | # Northern Words | % difference | # Southern Words | % difference |
| coordinating conjunction | 253 | -19 | 389 | 13 |
| cardinal number | 49 | 24 | 30 | -40 |
| determiner | 873 | 1 | 958 | -1 |
| existential `there' | 10 | -50 | 21 | 24 |
| foreign word | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| preposition or subordinating conjunction | 903 | - 4 | 1091 | 3 |
| adjective | 368 | -1 | 424 | 1 |
| adjective, comparative | 9 | -56 | 20 | 25 |
| adjective, superlative | 6 | -67 | 16 | 25 |
| modal | 123 | 10 | 113 | -11 |
| noun, singular or mass | 848 | -4 | 1022 | 3 |
| proper noun, singular | 506 | 13 | 426 | -16 |
| proper noun, plural | 34 | 24 | 22 | -36 |
| noun, plural | 294 | -13 | 409 | 9 |
| predeterminer | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| personal pronoun | 230 | 10 | 208 | -12 |
| possessive pronoun | 111 | -16 | 164 | 11 |
| adverb | 237 | -7 | 303 | 6 |
| adverb, comparative | 3 | -67 | 7 | 29 |
| adverb, superlative | 4 | -50 | 8 | 25 |
| particle | 0 | 2 | 50 | |
| infinitive marker `to' | 199 | -1 | 226 | 0 |
| interjection | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| verb, base form | 275 | 8 | 265 | -8 |
| verb, past tense | 125 | 21 | 86 | -30 |
| verb, gerund or present participle | 78 | -4 | 94 | 3 |
| verb, past participle | 234 | 0 | 264 | 0 |
| verb, non-3rd person singular present | 121 | 6 | 121 | - 6 |
| verb, 3rd person singular present | 169 | 7 | 165 | -7 |
| wh-determiner | 43 | -12 | 60 | 8 |
| wh-pronoun | 35 | 23 | 22 | -36 |
| possessive wh-pronoun | 0 | 3 | 33 | |
| wh-adverb | 30 | 40 | 8 | -150 |