Oxford Dictionary names top noun

[Rick Munroe]

This is kind of neat. A British research project has found that "time" is the most-used word in the English language, followed by "person" and "year." The rest of the Top 25 are: way, day, thing, man, world, life, hand, part, child, eye, woman, place, work, week, case, point, government, company, number, group, problem and fact.

 

I guess I've been living in NYC for too long. I would have bet the (Pepperidge) farm that the top three most-used words were "shit," "fuck," and "nigga." And maybe I've spent too much time at this message board, because I would have also expected to see "clockwatcher," "twink," "fake" and, of course, "deej."

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/21/AR2006062101852.html

[elikimball]

Interesting info, but you're obviously, you're the sort of person who has had WAYYYYY too much time on his hands this year.

 

Holy Crap! You're right! :-)

[RockHard]

Rick Munroe, I just can't believe you called deej a nigga! :-)

[Rick Munroe]

LOL It must be that time of year for a person like me.

[+ deej]

TIME magazine's PERSON of the YEAR issue covers the top three. Cool! :9

[AdamSmith]

>And maybe I've spent too

>much time at this message board, because I would have also

>expected to see "clockwatcher," "twink," "fake" and, of

>course, "deej."

 

You forgot "Cialis."

 

Could it be the most-used words are those that give us the most anxiety? Picking up where we left off...

 

It is time that beats in the breast and it is time

That batters against the mind, silent and proud,

The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.

 

Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse

Without a rider on a road at night.

The mind sits listening and hears it pass...

 

-- Wallace Stevens, "The Pure Good of Theory"