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Timeline for Most common words in English

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Feb 4 at 1:24 answer added qwr timeline score: 0
Apr 21, 2016 at 15:09 answer added Suzana timeline score: 3
Apr 15, 2016 at 22:59 answer added Brandon Loudermilk timeline score: 2
Apr 14, 2016 at 9:40 answer added Cesar Bielich timeline score: 2
Mar 26, 2016 at 19:05 history tweeted twitter.com/StackOpenData/status/713803988093767682
Mar 12, 2016 at 7:24 comment added philshem Because English capitalizes proper nouns and not all nouns, like German, it's fairly easy to do this with a few lines of code. This example does it for characters, but the switch to "words that don't start with a capital letter, except I" is easy enough opendata.stackexchange.com/a/7043/1511
Mar 11, 2016 at 18:12 answer added Joe Germuska timeline score: 6
Mar 11, 2016 at 14:54 comment added Joe You can get the top ten hundred words from xkcd.com/simplewriter/words.js ...I thought it had duplicates (I'm, I'd, I'll), but it looks like he has all contractions w/ two different types of apostrophes.
Mar 11, 2016 at 6:19 history asked Franck Dernoncourt CC BY-SA 3.0