Everybody wants to create their word list that included words they think are important. So would I, So would you. The following are submitted as a considered effort by Joachim Grzega for a Basic Global English (BGE): Vocabulary. His website was submitted by a member. Reading his methodology, it is not at all that rigorous, mostly frequency in common speech. On scanning the list, there is nothing to get excited about it . Current usage is somewhat different from Ogden's day; that is helpful. This list contains many Basic words, of course, as any legitimate attempt will. Our standard approach is to compare an new word-list with Basic. (And to make this page neater) But I have not the immediate interest,,for instance, where ,are the articles, "a", "an", "the" that comprise 9% of total English usage?. However for completeness we include the list and website for researchers.http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/SLF/EngluVglSW/ELiX/index.htm -- enter Forum, then select Basic Global English (BGE): Vocabulary.
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question, quite, rain, rather, reach, read, ready, real, reason, recognize, recommend, red, refer, regards, religion, rely on, remember, rent, report, responsible, result, retired, rich, ride, right, ring, risk, river, road, role, room, round, run, sad, salad, salt, same, satisfied, Saturday, sausage, save, say, school, science, scissors, sea , secret, see, seem, sell, sense, separate, September, set, seven, several, sex, shake, shall, ship, shirt, shoe, shop, short, should, show, side, sign, signature, silent, silver, similar, simple, since, sing, single, sir, sister, sit, six, size, skill, sleep, slice, slow, small, smell, smile, smoke, snow, so, society, soft, solve, some, somehow, sometimes, son, song, soon, sorry, sound, soup, south, speak, spell, spoon, sport; sports, spring, square, stairs, stand, star, state, statement, station, stay , step, still, stomach, stone, story, straight ahead, strange, strong, student, study, such, sugar, suggest, summer, sun, Sunday, sure, surprise, sweet, system, table, take, talk, tall, task, taste, taxi, tea, teach, team, telephone, tell, ten, terrible, test, than, thank, theater, then, there, thin, thing, think, thirsty, thousand, three, through, Thursday, time; times, tired, today, together, toilet, tomorrow, tongue; mother tongue, too, tool, tooth, top, topic, touch, towards, toy , train, translate, trash, travel, treat, tree, trip, trouble, trousers, truck, true, truth, try, Tuesday, turn, twelve, twenty, two, |
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understand, unite, until, up, use, usual, valuable, vegetable, very, view, visit, wall, want, war, warm, warn, wash, watch, water, way, weak, weapon, wear, Wednesday, week, welcome, west, wet, what, when, where, which, white, who, whole, why, wife, will, win, wind, window, wine, winter, wish, woman, wood, wool, word, work, world, worry, would, write, wrong, year, yellow, yes, yesterday, young, zero |