Most Common Nouns in English Language

[zakur]

Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5104778.stm)

1. Time
2. Person
3. Year
4. Way
5. Day
6. Thing
7. Man
8. World
9. Life
10. Hand

More (http://www.askoxford.com/oec/mainpage/oec02/?view=uk)

[Forty-Two]

They must not have counted pronouns. I'd be willing to bet that the most common noun (especially when they figure in blogs) is "I".

[zakur]

They must not have counted pronouns. I'd be willing to bet that the most common noun (especially when they figure in blogs) is "I"."I" makes the overall top 10:

1. the
2. be
3. to
4. of
5. and
6. a
7. in
8. that
9. have
10. I

[Forty-Two]

See? Proof that "I" rule(s).

[LibraryLady]

This site (http://www.wordcount.org/main.php) is fun.

[ceo_esq]

Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5104778.stm)

1. Time
2. Person
3. Year
4. Way
5. Day
6. Thing
7. Man
8. World
9. Life
10. Hand

More (http://www.askoxford.com/oec/mainpage/oec02/?view=uk)

Interesting. Now use them all, in order, in one sentence.

(Something about TIME's Person of the Year award, possibly.)

[gtc]

Someone can improve on this but:

Time's Person of the Year award is way overrated. The day the Thing was named the number one man in the world was the day that Life was handed a gun to shoot down Time's tattered credibility once and for all.

[Marquis de Carabas]

"Once upon a time," said the smelly person to my right, "in the year of our Lord 1935, there was this mighty dust storm that blew its way across the heartland all day and night, covering the land, covering fences, barns, tractors, and all that sort of thing, choking man, woman, and child alike, until we thought the world may well be ending, and that all life may soon die by the wild, windy, dusty hand of God A'mighty."

[ceo_esq]

Well done.

[sphenisc]

The most commonly used nouns in the English language are time, person, year, way, day, thing, man, world, life and hand.

[Skeptic]

This site (http://www.wordcount.org/main.php) is fun.

Am I the only one who checked what other two words all kinds of "dirty words" fall between?

"charming f**k workshops".

Where, naturally, you can have

"Howled orgasm schematic"

As you have a

"scuttle ejaculation pinpointed"

Hmmmm, that brings back memories...

The downside was that, to get to and from the charming f**k workshop, one had to use...

"taxi s**t struggling".

News from the gay liberation front:

"cock penis merge"

Mr. Saunders will not be pleased:

"incomplete lesbian saunders"

Okay, I'll stop before I get banned again...

[senorpogo]

They must not have counted pronouns. I'd be willing to bet that the most common noun (especially when they figure in blogs) is "I".

They were only counting nouns of amateur status. No pronouns.

[Meri]

This time, that person has gone too far. Last year, he went way overboard that day when he took that thing from that man, and used to to take over the world. This time, he should be punished with a life of watching "Manos, the Hands of Fate."

[RSLancastr]

Interesting. Now use them all, in order, in one sentence.

(Something about TIME's Person of the Year award, possibly.)

Someone can improve on this but:

Time's Person of the Year award is way overrated. The day the Thing was named the number one man in the world was the day that Life was handed a gun to shoot down Time's tattered credibility once and for all.That was two.

This time, that person has gone too far. Last year, he went way overboard that day when he took that thing from that man, and used to to take over the world. This time, he should be punished with a life of watching "Manos, the Hands of Fate."That was three.

[Dr Adequate]

Interesting. Now use them all, in order, in one sentence. So you want a sentence containing the words 'Time', 'Person', 'Year', 'Way', 'Day', 'Thing', 'Man', 'World', 'Life' and 'Hand'?

Well, I'm stumped ...

[Smart_Cookie]

So you want a sentence containing the words 'Time', 'Person', 'Year', 'Way', 'Day', 'Thing', 'Man', 'World', 'Life' and 'Hand'?

Well, I'm stumped ...

:jaw-dropp

[epepke]

Interesting. Now use them all, in order, in one sentence.

(Something about TIME's Person of the Year award, possibly.)

Time's person of the year did it his way, every day. The thing is, he was a man of the world who loved life and had an open hand.

No extra nouns other than pronouns.

[Wowbagger]

Time, for one person is a year, but could another way be a day, depending on what speed the thing the man is riding in the world, for his life is in the hand of Relativity.

(Thank goodness Albert Einstein never wrote fortune cookies.)

[hgc]

Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5104778.stm)

1. Time
2. Person
3. Year
4. Way
5. Day
6. Thing
7. Man
8. World
9. Life
10. Hand

More (http://www.askoxford.com/oec/mainpage/oec02/?view=uk)Two of those can also be used as verbs and most as adjectives. Do they count only the times they are used as nouns?

[Forty-Two]

Three of them are verbs, actually: time (to time a race), man (to man a boat), and hand (to hand something to someone).

[hgc]

true that

[Cylinder]

See? Proof that "I" rule(s).

You did not even break the top ten.

[Foolmewunz]

Here's a stretch (nearly a novel with three sub-plots in the 2nd sentence, but it fits the rule of getting all ten into one sentence.... 2nd sentence only! Ah, but.... does it pass the marks on grammar? Should I have a semi-colon or full stop after ..."to anyone", or can I get away with the comma?

That Magazine is Stupid! In no time at all, the Person of the Year Award has become a traditional way for a magazine to ratchet up its sales figures for a single day, yet without really indicating a thing of importance to anyone, especially a man of the third world like myself who lives a life of poverty and does not have a few bucks to hand over to the newsstand dealer just to read some elitists’ opinion.

[alfaniner]

Time person year
way day thing man world life hand
Top nouns are haiku

[l0rca]

This word rank website is an excellent way to see the "popularity status" of words. I've been looking for something to graph this for a long time. Sweet.