<incom> Time magazine's "Person of the Year" is You (Who?)

George Lessard media at web.net
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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