blogging on teen follies

[Tom Zurinskas]

My data from UK's Collins Cobuild evaluating 15.4 million words (used in
truespel book 4, authorhouse.com) show that the top 20 words of English make
up about one third of the words on a typical media page of text.  The top
100 words make up about 50%.   It's typically the way English works.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.



>From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
>>   So we have before us - in black and white - proof that most persons in
>>responsible positions must rely on about twenty words for roughly
>>one-third of their utterances - the same twenty words used by
>>inarticulate, music-benumbed teenagers !
>
>   Can we stand idly by ?
>
>   JL
>
>"Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
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>by mark liberman, who's tracked down a fair amount of stuff:
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>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003921.html
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