list of common words

[Ngoni Chipere]

You might want to have a look at Paul Meara's p_lex program, dowloadable
here:

http://www.lognostics.co.uk/tools/index.htm

and explained here:

http://www.ameprc.mq.edu.au/docs/prospect_journal/volume_16_no_3/Prospect_16,3_article_1.pdf

regards

Ngoni


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Philip Dale <dalep at unm.edu> wrote:

>  I have the memory that there is a list somewhere of the 3000 (?) most
> common words in English, which can be used by exclusion to measure the use
> of ‘rare’ words. Can someone point me to that list? Even better, is there
> software available to scan a passage and compute the number of common vs.
> rare wrods?  Many thanks.
>
> Philip Dale
>
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