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The Oxford Dictionary Says That The Word 'Time' Is The Most Popular Noun
From AOL: According to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, the most common words are the, be, to, of, a, in, that, have, and I.
The list of the top 25 nouns: time, person, year, way, day, thing, man, world, life, hand, part, child, eye, woman, place, work, week, case, point, government, company, number, group, problem, fact.
They didn’t list the most popular verbs. Probably because, as Neidermeyer said in Animal House, they evoke “… individual acts of perversion SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.”
So, your challenge: write the best paragraph using all of the most common words, and all of the top 25 nouns, and your favorite clean English verbs (careful: this is a family blog!). You may use additional words, to make sense.
For example, starting at “hand”, one could write, “The hand, or part of it, belonging to a child flew into the eye of a woman at her place of work last week…”
BONUS: use them in the original ordered listed, above; and use each word only once.
(What a humongous waste of time….)
The Oxford Dictionary Says That The Word 'Time' Is The Most Popular Noun
From AOL: According to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, the most common words are the, be, to, of, a, in, that, have, and I.
The list of the top 25 nouns: time, person, year, way, day, thing, man, world, life, hand, part, child, eye, woman, place, work, week, case, point, government, company, number, group, problem, fact.
They didn’t list the most popular verbs. Probably because, as Neidermeyer said in Animal House, they evoke “… individual acts of perversion SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.”
So, your challenge: write the best paragraph using all of the most common words, and all of the top 25 nouns, and your favorite clean English verbs (careful: this is a family blog!). You may use additional words, to make sense.
For example, starting at “hand”, one could write, “The hand, or part of it, belonging to a child flew into the eye of a woman at her place of work last week…”
BONUS: use them in the original ordered listed, above; and use each word only once.
(What a humongous waste of time….)
posted by Greg Finnegan @ 3:32 PM
6 Comments:
At 9:05 PM,
Stew Magoo said…
I didn't see weatherpixie in there...
At 12:54 PM,
Greg Finnegan said…
Stew, your submission for the contest contained the popular words "I" and "in". I hope that you are competitive enough...
At 8:29 PM,
kenju said…
Timewaster, for sure....LOL
At 9:53 PM,
Stew Magoo said…
OH! Is this thing on???
At 10:04 PM,
Stew Magoo said…
A speech by President Hillary Clinton
The time is upon us, each person among you must take a year of your life and do it my way. Day to day the things which man, indeed every person in this world, face in real life must be borne. I gotta hand it to that guy Greg Finnegan, part and parcel, he is but a child. When looking someone like Greg in the eye, you see not a man, but a woman. And in the place of work, you find instead obscure Monte Python quotes. Each week, we wait to find another witticism from Greg. Case in point, his recent observations on the government leadership in Iraq (or lack thereof), and the company which our leaders keep. He's really got their number I tells ya. But let's not group, Greg's observations into a static problem, it's pure wisdom. And that's the fact Jack!
At 11:09 AM,
Greg Finnegan said…
I am breathless! To think that President Hillary may look in my eye, and see a woman... And my operation in Sweden isn't even scheduled until next month!!
Stew has outdone himself... and me. He even finishes it on a Bill Murray quote!
The only word missing from the list is "have", or its forms, "has" or "had". That's ok; I HAVE the wonderful written speech; I HAD faith that Stew would deliver; and I HAS the RE-spect of Ms. Hillary as much as the Rev Jesse HAS, so Stew wins the contest!!
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