WORD WORM Examining the English language...its use...and its misuse.

  

Keeping speech simple

There are over 600,000 words in the English Language yet most are not used. In fact, most people only use 18,000 (which is about 3%).

Ten words account for 25% of speech

50 words account for 50% of speech

2,000 words are about 95-99% of the words used.

Most common words of speech?

I      you      the    a