This piece includes misquotations from The Sugar-Plum Tree and Other Verses by Eugene Field. Graphics are adaptations of versions by Fern Bisel Peat. The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1930 & Was inspired by Steven Pinker's Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language [Basic Books, 1999] The most common verbs in English are: be (39,175 occurrences in a million words of text); have (12,458 occurrences in a million words of text); do (4,367 occurrences in a million words of text); say (2,765 occurrences in a million words of text). (p 123). & Music courtesy of Classical Midi Archives: G. Pollen's midi version of Pyoty Ilich Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies & For my Mother who taught me all the words you have to memorize. |
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