August 20, 2004
This simple tool came to me in today’s Scout Report. Here is how the Word Count site describes itself:
WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more uncommon it is…
Can you guess what the three most common words of the English language are and their ranked order (Hint: they’re all in this question)?