Re: [silk] The 100 most common English words

2008-09-08 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: So we say No much more than we say Yes, how interesting No? C -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/ +91-9884467463

Re: [silk] The 100 most common English words

2008-09-08 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: That's how I got 'no'. Yes, I thought would be included. Wasn't. I got up and down too. So we say No much more than we say Yes, how interesting

Re: [silk] The 100 most common English words

2008-09-08 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Nishant Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other words I tried and did not appear - I had exhausted the parts of speech and was looking at functional binaries - were good/bad, black/white, day/night... but I did get up/down while trying those. That's how I got

Re: [silk] The 100 most common English words

2008-09-08 Thread Shyam Visweswaran
--- On Sun, 9/7/08, Nishant Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea where they are drawing the list from? According to the Wikipedia: It is based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus of over a billion words, and represents one study done by Oxford Online, associated with the Oxford

Re: [silk] The 100 most common English words

2008-09-07 Thread ss
On Sunday 07 Sep 2008 12:27:27 pm Nishant Shah wrote: I was very surprised that God does not feature in the top 100 though did you try sh1t and f*ck? I am not going to be trying it myself. shiv

[silk] The 100 most common English words

2008-09-06 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
Apologies if this is old hat. A game/quiz in which you try to find the 100 most common English words in 5 mins. My highest score's 41. http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords C -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages