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5. Could be. After I posted I Googled and one source says 77,934 words, (2600 words / hour)

Reply to FrodosPet (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 03:33 AM

Mar 2015

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77934 words / 30 hours = 2598 words/hour.

So that sounds reasonable for an hour, or even rather generous. Leaving room for the commentary they mentioned.

(On edit: that's 43 words/minute, so it leaves a lot of time for commercials or public service announcements too)

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Finland's national radio airs readings of complete Quran [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 2015 OP

I hope they repeat Sura- ''al-Kafiroon'' several times..... DeSwiss Mar 2015 #1

post that somewhere the righties can see it yurbud Mar 2015 #2

I think it takes a lot longer than 30 hours to read the Quran progree Mar 2015 #3

Perhaps not. Many are pretty short FrodosPet Mar 2015 #4

Could be. After I posted I Googled and one source says 77,934 words, (2600 words / hour) progree Mar 2015 #5

*IMHO* TheCrankyLiberal Mar 2015 #6

interesting post, TheCrankyLiberal Skittles Mar 2015 #7