[Peter ODonnell]

I hope your IQ is 600 because it took me six times as long.

[Political Junkie Too]

There are tricks to it.

• One-letter words are either A or I.
• The most common letter is E, followed by T.
• The most common word is THE. Find the E, then see if there are any THE's.
• Four-letter words that begin with TH are THEN, THEM, THAT, THIS, THAN, THEY.
• Hyphenated last names are usually Irish, beginning with O'.
• Long words often end in gerunds, like ING, MENT, TION.
• Sequences of two-letter words are grammatically like IF IT IS, or IT IS AN, or phrases like that.
• Three-letter words after a comma are conjunctions like AND, BUT, NOT, etc.

After a while, you'll begin to see the word patterns.

-PJ