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Re:Visualizing language usage in New York Times news coverage by ISL on Saturday July 26, 2014 @01:27PM (#8090220)
These plots would be even more interesting with a logarithmic scale option.

In Chronicle-golf, the most common word I can find is "new" at 74% of articles in 1978 (which beats out "who","what","when", "why", and "how"...).

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Re:Visualizing language usage in New York Times news coverage by andrioni on Saturday July 26, 2014 @02:06PM (#8090301)
"I" gets ~79% in 1869.
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Re:Visualizing language usage in New York Times news coverage by ISL on Saturday July 26, 2014 @03:13PM (#8090471)
Whoa - "can" scores 100% in only one year.
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