Most frequently used words

[Robert Kelly]

I doubt it == the hell sermon alone is 'wordier' than that.

But it is seriously averred that one of the reasons for Georges Simenon's
immense popularity in the francophone lands is that his vocabulary is
deliberately (at least in the Inspector Maigret books) restricted to two
thousand words -- a plausible number, at least.

Does anyone have hardedged data, word frequency tables, etc.?


RK


On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, sagehen wrote:

> My not-infallible memory has coughed up the notion that James Joyce wrote
> /Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/ with a vocabulary of only 200
> words. Somebody out there will no doubt correct this improbable fancy.
> A. Murie
>