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[Barnhart]

DARE has only _amongst (hands of) them_ and _amongst you_ .  The latter
is chiefly central Atlantic.

It does not appear to be very frequent as measured by the Brown corpus
or AH Word Frequency Book (both somewhat dated).  In the latter, it is
recorded as appearing in 3rd grade reading.  It does not appear in the
World Book Word List (formerly [?] used by the editors of World Book
Encyclopedia).  In the Brown corpus it appears somewhere in the
vicinity of 14,000 to 16,000 (p. 41 in the Rank List); the alphabetical
arrangement within the rank list makes an exact position difficult.
Thorndike's _Teacher's Word Book of 20,000 Words_ (1931) puts amongst
in the 6th thousand.  It appears three time in James Joyce's Ulysses.
Needless to say, it's not very frequent.  Very unscientific as googling
is, when googled _amongst_ comes up with 3,430,000 hits; searched in
Google News the number of hits is 3,340.  Among, respectively appears
33,600,000 and 51,000.  That's a closer comparison than I would have
expected, I think.

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com