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user-inactivated  ·  3603 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Quiz: Word Frequency (Moderns)

I don't have any guess but I'm surprised how often "time" shows up.





wasoxygen  ·  3603 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Time is the #1 noun in the 450-million word Corpus of Contemporary American English, at position 52, followed by nouns

  year people way day man thing woman life child 
The word word appears at position 245.

War appears at 350, peace at 936. Man (94) woman (111) and child (115) are a bit closer together.

The words we use may be indicitive of the way we think. A suggestive pair is problem (171) and solution (1224).