Who produced the list of the most common words in English?
Q: Who produced the list of the most common words in English?
A: Oxford University Press produced the list of the most common words in English.
Q: What is meant by "words" in the list?
A: By "words" in the list, dictionary head words or lemmas are meant.
Q: How many words were analyzed to come up with the list?
A: The list was based on an analysis of a body of over a billion words.
Q: Who conducted the study that led to the creation of the list?
A: Oxford Online, which is associated with the Oxford English Dictionary, conducted the study that led to the creation of the list.
Q: What sources were used to create the list?
A: The sources used to create the list included writings of all sorts from "literary novels and specialist journals to everyday newspapers and magazines and from Hansard to the language of chatrooms, emails, and weblogs".
Q: How much of all printed material in English do the first 25 words represent?
A: The first 25 words make up about one-third of all printed material in English.
Q: What percentage of all the words in the Oxford English Corpus do the top 100 lemmas listed below account for?
A: The top 100 lemmas listed below account for 50% of all the words in the Oxford English Corpus.
