YJL

I just watched this dangerous video: (Be warned: Brace yourself!)

I have no idea what this story is about. All I heard was fox, fox, and fox.

Anyway, I couldn’t stop to wonder what words are said most, so I googled for a text version to do a simple check:

% wget https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/Fox-In-Socks.txt
% grep -io "[-'a-z]*" Fox-In-Socks.txt | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr |
 head -20
     37 sir
     25 a
     22 and
     20 socks
     20 in
     18 fox
     17 knox
     16 on
     13 mr
     11 with
     11 tweetle
     11 battle
     10 to
     10 this
     10 puddle
     10 now
      9 sews
      9 i
      8 you
      8 new

sir is said most. (I think it’s safe to call it, inflection forms and plural form don’t seem to change the fact)

The book is close to 840 words. It’s not a long, but I am sure it’s hard to read.

If she reads this as bedtime story to kids, I am not sure the kids would ever want to go to sleep. She can read five times in ten minutes.