Word: commonest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lorge admits that his Semantic Count of the 570 Commonest Words is a "scholar's enterprise" ("I don't expect to hit the bestseller lists"). So far, he has printed only 49 copies, but he hopes that these, planted in libraries throughout the U.S., will help dictionary and textbook writers to begin putting first things first...