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English Word Count

WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way people use English language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. WordCount data comes from the British National Corpus®, a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent an accurate cross-section of current English usage. WordCount includes all words that occur at least twice in the BNC®.

Here are some words I’ve tried, sorted by ranking:

American - 592th
German - 883th
Russian - 1,847th
Russia - 2,342th
Poland - 4,179th
Ukraine - 7,684th
Belgian - 8,278th
Czech - 8,544th
Warsaw - 9,501th
Lithuania - 9,974th
Latvia - 14,483th
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Byelorussia - 36,701th
Minsk - 36,729th
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Belarus - 58,578th (!)

It reminds me again about what Vaclav Havel recently said about West ignoring Belarus.

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16 Responses to “English Word Count”

  1. Hi there Says:
    September 17th, 2006 at 9:05 pm

    Are you there?

    Thanks for clearing this up .

  2. Hi there Says:
    September 18th, 2006 at 10:49 pm

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    Nice speech. I’m curious how it went over.

  3. Hi there Says:
    September 19th, 2006 at 4:48 pm

    Are you there?

    I was waiting for this kind of posts …

  4. Hi there Says:
    September 19th, 2006 at 9:09 pm

    Are you there?

    Cool.

  5. Hi there Says:
    September 21st, 2006 at 3:19 pm

    Are you there?

    I never thought about this .

  6. Hi there Says:
    September 21st, 2006 at 5:01 pm

    Are you there?

    Well … again a nice post .

  7. Hi there Says:
    September 27th, 2006 at 11:56 am

    Are you there?

    Beautiful

  8. Hi there Says:
    September 28th, 2006 at 4:44 am

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    As always a good post :) .

  9. Hi there Says:
    September 29th, 2006 at 4:15 am

    Are you there?

    All the darkness in the world cannot put out the smallest candle. The darker it is, more brightly shines the candle. instead of complaining about the dark search for your candle. Believe me; It exists

  10. Hi there Says:
    September 29th, 2006 at 11:55 pm

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    I would love to hear more about this …

  11. Hi there Says:
    October 11th, 2006 at 6:39 pm

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    I am not sure if this is true but …

  12. Hi there Says:
    October 11th, 2006 at 10:04 pm

    Are you there?

    Do you mind to post some more information about this ?

  13. Hi there Says:
    October 12th, 2006 at 3:36 pm

    Are you there?

    A new usefull post made by …

  14. Hi there Says:
    October 13th, 2006 at 7:30 am

    Are you there?

    Wow that’s a nice post .

  15. Hi there Says:
    October 18th, 2006 at 4:28 am

    Are you there?

    A nice story posted at …

  16. Doodee Says:
    February 4th, 2008 at 5:27 am

    Thanks for sharing

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