Today I learned about Zipf's law:
The most common word in a language tends to be twice as common as the second most common word.
Which in turn is twice as common as the third most common word, etcetera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
#TIL #zipfslaw #funfact
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