Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 17:18:55 +0000

From: Rose Nash ROSENASH[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WORLDNET.ATT.NET

Subject: Re: Word frequency list?



I know of two good sources for this information:

1. The Ladder Dictionary of English. It's a recently revised paperback for

beginning language students, and all the words are given a frequency rating

from 1 to 5.

2. A General Serice List of English Words by Michael West (Longman, 1953).

Contains the first 2000 most frequently used words as of that date. Should

still be useful.



There is also a statistical study of frequencies in written English done in

the 70's at Brown University, I think. If memory serves, it was called

Computational Analysis of Contemporary English by Stavnicky.

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