The most commonly used words in my vocabulary

Photo taken by me – Manchester Art Gallery entrance
Preston, England
November 21, 2015 3:16am CST
I just received a link that is being circulated on Facebook in their formats that picks out the most commonly used words in your vocabulary from your postings there. It sends them to you in a scrambled rather random heap rather than listed from the most used to the least. It seems to avoid obvious words like the, I or and. My spaghetti soup of words included in no set order; Me, pub, computer, thanks, write, martial, burlesque, writing, editor, stats, charity, stall, going, easy, authors, time, past, wasn’t, ouch, episodes, apparently, happened, weekend, film, real, arts, actually, labour, best, much, great, treasure, story, minutes, village, and Manchester. A few I can believe; Manchester and burlesque are subjects I use a lot but I don’t refer to stats that often. That suggests it may just check a few pages rather than my entire ten year plus Facebook input. I guess I need to write aardvark and Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlll and Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch more often. For those who don’t know the big word there is a real village in Wales. Arthur Chappell
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@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
21 Nov 15
What? No Haiku?
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• Preston, England
21 Nov 15
a few syllables over me thinks in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Llan fair pwll gwyn gyll gog er y chw y rn drob wllll an ty sil I ....
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@Lucky15 (37374)
• Philippines
21 Nov 15
I need to check that long one. Is that thw one mentioned by the weather forecaster/reporter?
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• Preston, England
21 Nov 15
@Lucky15 I have tried but without success - neat that the weather reporter managed it
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@Lucky15 (37374)
• Philippines
21 Nov 15
@arthurchappell i watched it many times...like i ca not hold by breath and just gogogo
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
21 Nov 15
Assuming that you are referring to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, it is a village in Wales reputed for being the longest place name. Even the maps abbreviate this to LlanfairPG for practicality.
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• Calgary, Alberta
22 Nov 15
I always want to try to be articulate but I always end up using simple and basic English. On the bright side, At least I am not like this girl I know who always to F-bombs every minute.
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@TheHorse (218463)
• Walnut Creek, California
22 Nov 15
Interesting. I wonder what mine would be. But I tend to be wary of those kinds of links.
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• Preston, England
22 Nov 15
that one seems safe enough but some links on Facebook can be dodgy
@troyburns (1405)
• New Zealand
21 Nov 15
@arthurchappell - Funny stuff Arthur, though my favorite bit is that you used 'aardvark' as a tag. That will drag in the aardvark fans for sure.
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@JudyEv (339464)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Nov 15
If I were on FB, I wouldn't mind knowing what words I use most. Probably ice-cream and chocolate would be up there among them.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
22 Nov 15
The word chocolate would also come up pretty often in my writing.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
21 Nov 15
The obvious 2 words that you use most are actually missing from that list. It was no doubt compiled using verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives because the words that everyone uses most would be AND and THE.
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@suzzy3 (8341)
21 Nov 15
I have been to the welsh village train station. LLpg is what we called it. Clever post.
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@jstory07 (139502)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21 Nov 15
We only have a facebook account to stay in touch with our children that live in europe.
@valmnz (17097)
• New Zealand
22 Nov 15
At least 'me' is there at the beginning of the list!
@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
22 Nov 15
Haven't seen that link of facebook yet!!
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
21 Nov 15
I feel bad for any child who had to learn to write that as their town name
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
21 Nov 15
I saw a link to this yesterday. I haven't decided whether to use it or not.
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@Vivenda (583)
• Portsmouth, England
21 Nov 15
I don't use FB often enough to try this. It feels like shouting in the street!
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