jacquesdehe | [LFN] Re: bispo > bispal
Hi Stefan and other friends
More interesting is:
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Teach/English-3000-common-words.html:
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Discussion of the 3000 Words List
This is a list of the 3000 most commonly used words in American
newspapers and popular magazines. We compiled this list by taking
forty newspapers and magazines and simply sorting the words and then
counting the frequency of the words. We broke them down in groups of
200. The frequency of use is true for the groups but not within the
groups. For convenience I sorted the words within each group of 200.
Also if you should count the words you would find that there are
fewer than 3000 words. Actually there are 2126 words listed. This is
true because I removed words that were simply plurals of words. For
example "tree" is on the third and fourth hundred-word list so I
removed "trees" as somewhat unnecessary. Also I removed some but not
all simple regular past tense words where I thought it would serve
little purpose. I also removed the regular words duplicated in
the "ing" suffix. For example "spell" is there but I
removed "spelling" and "spelled". This list is useful for the
student who wishes a vocabulary list for simple conversation. It is
an excellent base to begin with. It is interesting to note that the
list is very contemporary. For example the names Paul and George are
on the list. This is no doubt due to Pope Paul and President George
Bush at the time the list was compiled. Note that when a word is
capitalized it is a person's name, a proper noun or title. For
example Miss is a title, while miss is a verb or a noun.
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The list of the 3000 most frequent English words follows . . .
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Regards,
Jacques
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--- In LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com, Stefan Fisahn <sf@e...>
wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:56:37AM -0000, jacquesdehe wrote:
> >
> > Please look for a most usable source !
> >
> > --- In LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com, "jacquesdehe"
> > <jacquesdehe@y...> wrote:
> > > --- In LinguaFrancaNova@yahoogroups.com, George Boeree
> > > <cgboeree@a...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I still would like to emphasize that we need both
> > > > a basic vocabulary (I believe about 2000 words will do)
> > > > and an extended vocabulary (as much as 5000 more words).
> > >
> > > 2,000 most frequent words in English:
> > >
> > > the at0 677594 2018 335.8 5003.6 14.9
> > > of prf 353416 2018 175.1 2860.4 16.3
>
> Hi Jacques,
>
> is this list online? Have you got a URL?
> Could you explain the figures/parameters behind the word?
>
> bon voles,
> sf.
>
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