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We are all leeches now, trying to work out what is walking towards us | Helen Sullivan

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54% Informative

A leech bit my daughter’s head once: it wanted to swallow, not pronounce, the daughter.

The daughters are the leech's words (though some interpret the daughters as the suckers) William Wordsworth wrote a poem about leech-gatherers: the people who collected leeches used in hospitals.

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54

Informative language

50

Neutral language

54

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

24

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offensive

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possibly hateful

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not detected

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long-living

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