<incom> Time magazine's "Person of the Year" is You (Who?)
George Lessard
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Sat Dec 23 02:12:37 CET 2006
According to "English Uncovered: the hundred commonest English words"
from (the Oxford English Dictionary site) the commonest nouns are
"time, person, and year." Man is #7 and woman is #14.
In the list of one hundred commonest English words found in writing
around the world, time is #55, person is #61 and year is #63.
Interestingly, the analysis reveals that the vast majority of the
words we use most frequently are from Old English: the basic elements
of nearly any sentence that any of us utters were in place before the
Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/wordfrom/revisedcoed11/?view=uk
"English Uncovered: the hundred commonest English words" is from the
"English Uncovered" supplement of the Concise Oxford English
Dictionary Revised Eleventh Edition.
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