Most frequently used words

Ray Ott Amcolph at AOL.COM
Sat Oct 7 02:33:43 UTC 2000


Those numbers seem way too few--mythically so (after all, don't the Esquimaux
use five hundred words just for snow?  All of them epithets?).  The
well-regarded Dale-Chall readability formula is based on a list of three
thousand words that fourth-graders are supposed to know, and fourth graders
are not usually famous for their large vocabularies.

Ray Ott



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