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Mr Poole kindly shared the website wordcount.org with me today. It proclaims itself to be "an interactive presentation of the 86,800 most frequently used English words." The data set it uses draws on the British National Corpus.
It's just a bit of fun, really. Try searching for names, for example, and seewhere they rank and what words are ranked alongside for some interesting juxtapositions (McAuley underdogs, for example at 50188 and 5018).
You might like to think about what issues this raises about the very definition of the word 'word', and the extent to which any corpus can be said to be representative of the English language as a whole.
Here is a link to a post from last year on setting up Google Docs. There have been one or two changes since then but I think it still works pretty much as described.
Unless asked otherwise, please share any homework tasks with me via Google Docs. If you have any problems with it, please let me know and I'll see if I can help you to get it sorted.
How to set up & share with Google Docs: http://mcfilm.posterous.com/instructions-for-setting-up-sharing-google-do
An interesting article in its own right, but I saw this shared on twitter by AngrySubEditor, who found 13 errors in the article.
How many can you find?
Interested in everything.
Interested in everything.
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