Reply to Strain , Patterson , and Seidenberg ( 2002 ) Andrew

E. Strain, K. E. Patterson, and M. S. Seidenberg (2002) reported an effect of imageability and a Regularity Imageability interaction in a regression analysis of naming latencies to 120 words. One of their items (couth) was named correctly by just 5 of their 24 participants, and its reaction time was an outlier on their distribution. When that single item is removed, the significant predictors are age of acquisition (AoA), word frequency, regularity, and length. Analyses of the combined data from J. Monaghan and A. W. Ellis’s (2002) Experiments 1–3 indicate that AoA predicts naming latencies for exception words but not consistent words. E. Strain et al.’s other points are considered in the light of these observations.