Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Guess the commonest words. You have 5 minutes.
It’s harder than you think.
I got 45 the first time. I did it again and got 47; that’s not much improvement. Via LanguageHat, who got 47 on his first attempt.
I “played” a similar game months ago, where you had to type in the names of colors. That was challenging, too. I can’t find it now, though.










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August 6, 2008 at 2:40 pm
pNielsen
David and I found only 40. Most are SOOOO obvious. The two I wasn’t expecting were “sound” and “numbers.”
August 12, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Dawn Goldberg
I was pretty disgusted with some I missed: one, at.
Geez.
August 12, 2008 at 7:10 pm
wordlily
Yeah, there’s definitely that aspect of it.