Talk:Most common words in English

Confiusing and confused

I don't understand this article. I checked the references. The first two do not seem to have any lists at all. The later ref has a list, but it is not of lemmas, rather of actual words (called "word forms"). In addition, that list is based on literature -- which is perhaps why the word "case" comes in so high (maybe due to "In case"). In any case, this list is a little suspect, and the article confusing. Kdammers (talk) 05:06, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Everyone's entitled to their opinion. I've added to the intro a definition of what is meant by a word (in this context). Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:56, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

short lists

Why does the noun list have only 21 words? (I can guess that the prep list is short because of rarity of additional preps.) Kdammers (talk) 15:53, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus.

This book by Geoffrey Leech, Paul Rayson and Andrew Wilson has a companion website (web archive) which provides wordlists under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. These lists include all words that occur more than ten times in the 100,000,000 word corpus of (then) present-day English. The British National Corpus project "was carried out and is managed by an industrial/academic consortium lead [sic] by Oxford University Press, of which the other members are major dictionary publishers Addison-Wesley Longman and Larousse Kingfisher Chambers; academic research centres at Oxford University Computing Services, Lancaster University's Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language, and the British Library's Research and Innovation Centre."

I believe some of the above would be a useful addition to the article but that is protected. I would particularly like to add this external link: https://web.archive.org/web/20191118100553/http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/lists/1_2_all_freq.txt. I'm thinking of creating a shared Google Sheet from the data but it will take a little time to do that properly. (Note: I have used citation templates above so that I can easily make citations in other articles.)--GrounderUK (talk) 20:02, 5 June 2020 (UTC)