Common words

Started by Ten thumbs, March 10, 2008, 09:11:44 AM

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I was a little bemused to learn the other day that 'time' is the most common noun in use. Checking my own writing, I found it did not appear that often so, as I was at a meeting on Sunday last, I listened carefully to everything that was said ( including informal conversations). In over an hour of speaking, I was astonished to find that the word 'time' was not even used once. Is this a record?
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.