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From: mjward@adobe.COM (Michael J. Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: word frequency in English
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Date: 9 Apr 91 22:53:12 GMT
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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Where can I find a list/dictionary/datafile of English words sorted by
relative frequency in various classes of usage. For example, is "a" the most
commonly used English word. followed by "the"? How about "that" compared to
"sesquipedalianism"? Who's doing binary lookup tables based on word
frequency?  --Mike Ward