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- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 15:42:00 PST
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- Subject: Re: Help! Low frequency words
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- Jesse writes...
-
- >I'm afraid that to the best of my knowledge, Kucera & Francis
- >(1967) is still the word list in current use, and it sounds like
- >your friend already has it.
-
- Actually there is a newer version by Francis and Kucera (1982) which I was able
- to find for her along with several others. Thanks for the tip, though. The
- research that she is replicating, in part, was conducted in the mid-60s and
- many of the "infrequent words" they used have connotations or are no longer
- infrequent. One of those is "fag". It's obvious that she can't use that but
- there were others as well, prompting her to look for a newer scale. Thank you
- all for your suggestions, we'd appreciate any more.
-
- Don
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