Quiz: Word Frequency (Classics)

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wasoxygen · 3373 days ago

Can you recognize these classics by the nouns that appear in them most? The lists below are the ten most frequently used common nouns, in descending order, from the following titles.

Aesop's Fables

Candide by Voltaire

Discourse on the Method by Descartes

The Iliad by Homer

The New Testament

The Old Testament

The Republic by Plato

Tales of the Brothers Grimm

  (1) fox lion man wolf day time mouse ass way dog

  (2) man son ships spear horses hand gods armour battle city

  (3) god man things lord son men father day spirit heaven

  (4) king man time day home father door wife mother head

  (5) lord god king son people house man land children day

  (6) man state life justice soul nature knowledge truth things world

  (7) man woman world country master day baron people sheep captain

  (8) order being things time reason heart others nature blood truth

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NotPhil · 3373 days ago · link ·

1) Aesop's Fables

2) The Iliad

3) The New Testament

4) Tales of the Brothers Grimm

5) The Old Testament

6) The Republic

7) Candide

8) Discourse on the Method

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user-inactivated · 3373 days ago · link ·

Can't distinguish between the Bible and Grimm's Tales! Object lesson.

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wasoxygen · 3373 days ago · link ·

Yes, very similar love/blood/rhetoric profiles.

But surely you'll give NotPhil some competition? Your uncontested victory last time must have felt so hollow.

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user-inactivated · 3373 days ago · link ·

I will go out on a limb and say I agree with NotPhil. In truth, I barely looked at it, but I remember your recent statement that too many of us hedge our opinions so that we're never wrong about anything. I think his guess is as good as my best guess is likely to be, is what I mean.