Swandives

The Concise Oxford Dictionary has just released its 11th edition. And, according to the Oxford English Corpus, the 25 most used nouns are as follows:

1. time
2. person
3. year
4. way
5. day
6. thing
7. man
8. world
9. life
10. hand
11. part
12. child
13. eye
14. woman
15. place
16. work
17. week
18. case
19. point
20. government
21. company
22. number
23. group
24. problem
25. fact

Yikes. That doesn’t bode well. For starters, where’s love? We’re so caught up with time and work we’re forgetting the important things. At least life’s in there, I guess.