<div dir="ltr"><div><div>You might want to have a look at Paul Meara's p_lex program, dowloadable here:<br><br><a href="http://www.lognostics.co.uk/tools/index.htm">http://www.lognostics.co.uk/tools/index.htm</a><br><br>
and explained here:<br><br><a href="http://www.ameprc.mq.edu.au/docs/prospect_journal/volume_16_no_3/Prospect_16,3_article_1.pdf">http://www.ameprc.mq.edu.au/docs/prospect_journal/volume_16_no_3/Prospect_16,3_article_1.pdf</a><br>
<br></div>regards<br><br></div>Ngoni<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Philip Dale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dalep@unm.edu" target="_blank">dalep@unm.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
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