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From: walker@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Rick Walker) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 20:43:44 GMT Subject: Re: Top 1000 English words Message-ID: <63140014@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com> Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Lines: 1014

In comp.sources.wanted, zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) writes:

> I'm looking for an ftp'able list of the 1000 most common English words in > non-technical sources (otherwise I'd just scan the man pages :-)

Culled from one year of USENET traffic, here is my list of the top 1000 words, along with percentage of occurence: (this is from a database of 343945617 total scanned words).

-- Rick Walker

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