Unconfirmed Reports

I did a phone interview with a journalist from the Wall Street Journal during the week, and I ended up getting a mention (near the bottom) in his article published today:

Making Every Word Count

If you’re like me, you’ve wasted time taking online quizzes like the one my friend challenged me to take: Name the 100 most frequently used English words in five minutes. (I got 45.)

You could waste all the time you’d like, as Top 100 word lists abound. Word-frequency rankings are part — albeit just a sliver — of the vast output from studies of language corpora, or large collections of written and sometimes spoken text.

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