I just had occasion to find a list of the 1,000 most commonly used words in English.

I pasted them into BBEdit, set to Perl as the default language, and about forty of them came up coloured as Perl keywords.

I don't know what conclusions one can draw from this but I thought the monks might be interested. Would this be true of other languages? Would there be a higher or lower proportion?

The top 1,000 are below.

the, of, to, and, a, in, is, it, you, that, he, was, for, on, are, with, as, I, his, they, be, at, one, have, this, from, or, had, by, hot, word, but, what, some, we, can, out, other, were, all, there, when, up, use, your, how, said, an, each, she, which, do, their, time, if, will, way, about, many, then, them, write, would, like, so, these, her, long, make, thing, see, him, two, has, look, more, day, could, go, come, did, number, sound, no, most, people, my, over, know, water, than, call, first, who, may, down, side, been, now, find, any, new, work, part, take, get, place, made, live, where, after, back, little, only, round, man, year, came, show, every, good, me, give, our, under, name, very, through, just, form, sentence, great, think, say, help, low, line, differ, turn, cause, much, mean, before, move, right, boy, old, too, same, tell, does, set, three, want, air, well, also, play, small, end, put, home, read, hand, port, large, spell, add, even, land, here, must, big, high, such, follow, act, why, ask, men, change, went, light, kind, off, need, house, picture, try, us, again, animal, point, mother, world, near, build, self, earth, father, head, stand, own, page, should, country, found, answer, school, grow, study, still, learn, plant, cover, food, sun, four, between, state, keep, eye, never, last, let, thought, city, tree, cross, farm, hard, start, might, story, saw, far, sea, draw, left, late, run, don't, while, press, close, night, real, life, few, north, open, seem, together, next, white, children, begin, got, walk, example, ease, paper, group, always, music, those, both, mark, often, letter, until, mile, river, car, feet, care, second, book, carry, took, science, eat, room, friend, began, idea, fish, mountain, stop, once, base, hear, horse, cut, sure, watch, color, face, wood, main, enough, plain, girl, usual, young, ready, above, ever, red, list, though, feel, talk, bird, soon, body, dog, family, direct, pose, leave, song, measure, door, product, black, short, numeral, class, wind, question, happen, complete, ship, area, half, rock, order, fire, south, problem, piece, told, knew, pass, since, top, whole, king, space, heard, best, hour, better, true ., during, hundred, five, remember, step, early, hold, west, ground, interest, reach, fast, verb, sing, listen, six, table, travel, less, morning, ten, simple, several, vowel, toward, war, lay, against, pattern, slow, center, love, person, money, serve, appear, road, map, rain, rule, govern, pull, cold, notice, voice, unit, power, town, fine, certain, fly, fall, lead, cry, dark, machine, note, wait, plan, figure, star, box, noun, field, rest, correct, able, pound, done, beauty, drive, stood, contain, front, teach, week, final, gave, green, oh, quick, develop, ocean, warm, free, minute, strong, special, mind, behind, clear, tail, produce, fact, street, inch, multiply, nothing, course, stay, wheel, full, force, blue, object, decide, surface, deep, moon, island, foot, system, busy, test, record, boat, common, gold, possible, plane, stead, dry, wonder, laugh, thousand, ago, ran, check, game, shape, equate, hot, miss, brought, heat, snow, tire, bring, yes, distant, fill, east, paint, language, among, grand, ball, yet, wave, drop, heart, am, present, heavy, dance, engine, position, arm, wide, sail, material, size, vary, settle, speak, weight, general, ice, matter, circle, pair, include, divide, syllable, felt, perhaps, pick, sudden, count, square, reason, length, represent, art, subject, region, energy, hunt, probable, bed, brother, egg, ride, cell, believe, fraction, forest, sit, race, window, store, summer, train, sleep, prove, lone, leg, exercise, wall, catch, mount, wish, sky, board, joy, winter, sat, written, wild, instrument, kept, glass, grass, cow, job, edge, sign, visit, past, soft, fun, bright, gas, weather, month, million, bear, finish, happy, hope, flower, clothe, strange, gone, jump, baby, eight, village, meet, root, buy, raise, solve, metal, whether, push, seven, paragraph, third, shall, held, hair, describe, cook, floor, either, result, burn, hill, safe, cat, century, consider, type, law, bit, coast, copy, phrase, silent, tall, sand, soil, roll, temperature, finger, industry, value, fight, lie, beat, excite, natural, view, sense, ear, else, quite, broke, case, middle, kill, son, lake, moment, scale, loud, spring, observe, child, straight, consonant, nation, dictionary, milk, speed, method, organ, pay, age, section, dress, cloud, surprise, quiet, stone, tiny, climb, cool, design, poor, lot, experiment, bottom, key, iron, single, stick, flat, twenty, skin, smile, crease, hole, trade, melody, trip, office, receive, row, mouth, exact, symbol, die, least, trouble, shout, except, wrote, seed, tone, join, suggest, clean, break, lady, yard, rise, bad, blow, oil, blood, touch, grew, cent, mix, team, wire, cost, lost, brown, wear, garden, equal, sent, choose, fell, fit, flow, fair, bank, collect, save, control, decimal, gentle, woman, captain, practice, separate, difficult, doctor, please, protect, noon, whose, locate, ring, character, insect, caught, period, indicate, radio, spoke, atom, human, history, effect, electric, expect, crop, modern, element, hit, student, corner, party, supply, bone, rail, imagine, provide, agree, thus, capital, won't, chair, danger, fruit, rich, thick, soldier, process, operate, guess, necessary, sharp, wing, create, neighbor, wash, bat, rather, crowd, corn, compare, poem, string, bell, depend, meat, rub, tube, famous, dollar, stream, fear, sight, thin, triangle, planet, hurry, chief, colony, clock, mine, tie, enter, major, fresh, search, send, yellow, gun, allow, print, dead, spot, desert, suit, current, lift, rose, continue, block, chart, hat, sell, success, company, subtract, event, particular, deal, swim, term, opposite, wife, shoe, shoulder, spread, arrange, camp, invent, cotton, born, determine, quart, nine, truck, noise, level, chance, gather, shop, stretch, throw, shine, property, column, molecule, select, wrong, gray, repeat, require, broad, prepare, salt, nose, plural, anger, claim, continent, oxygen, sugar, death, pretty, skill, women, season, solution, magnet, silver, thank, branch, match, suffix, especially, fig, afraid, huge, sister, steel, discuss, forward, similar, guide, experience, score, apple, bought, led, pitch, coat, mass, card, band, rope, slip, win, dream, evening, condition, feed, tool, total, basic, smell, valley, nor, double, seat, arrive, master, track, parent, shore, division, sheet, substance, favor, connect, post, spend, chord, fat, glad, original, share, station, dad, bread, charge, proper, bar, offer, segment, slave, duck, instant, market, degree, populate, chick, dear, enemy, reply, drink, occur, support, speech, nature, range, steam, motion, path, liquid, log, meant, quotient, teeth, shell, neck


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