A New Word Frequency Book.

was analyzed by computer. The preparation of a word frequency book by computer is not new, for a pioneering example of such a book is the one published by Kucera and Francis ( 1967), based on a corpus of approximately one million words sampled from adult-oriented prose which had been printed in the United States during the year 1961. The Kucera-Francis word frequency book will continue to be a standard reference for the frequencies of English words, supplanting to a considerable extent the well-known but rather out-