Over 50% of US Englsih words on a page are subject to accents

[Mark Mandel]

Various individual accents would have subsets of these affects, but these
data can't be used for subsets because multiple instances of affects in
words are not counted.

"Effects", both times. Look it up.

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On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I looked at the top 5k words of English and their frequency counts.  These
> words make up about 90% of a text page.  Then I looked at ways in USA
> English that phonemes could be spoken differently by accent in terms of
> phoneme swaps and drops.  The results show that over 50% of the words are
> subject to phoneme swaps or drops.  See http://screenr.com/BVH7.
>
> Various individual accents would have subsets of these affects, but these
> data can't be used for subsets because multiple instances of affects in
> words are not counted.  Let me know of any other data corresponding to this.
>
>
> Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
>

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