Note (by Scott Fahlman): The Nettalk paper by Sejnowski and Rosenberg reports a number of experiments in which the net was trained on "a list of the 1000 most common English words". Several people have asked for this list so that they can attempt to duplicate those experiments. Unfortunately, the original list was not saved. However, Terry Sejnowski states that this list was created by scanning the list of most common words in the Brown corpus and selecting the first 1000 of these that also appear in the nettalk dictionary. He also provided me with a portion of this list. After a bit of hacking with editor macros and Lisp, I have prepared the following list of words that should closely approximate the 1000-word list used by Sejnowski and Rosenberg. *************************************************************************** (THE OF AND TO IN THAT IS WAS HE FOR IT WITH AS HIS ON BE AT BY I THIS HAD NOT ARE BUT FROM OR HAVE AN THEY WHICH ONE YOU WERE HER ALL SHE THERE WOULD THEIR WE HIM BEEN HAS WHEN WHO WILL MORE NO IF OUT SO SAID WHAT UP ITS ABOUT INTO THAN THEM CAN ONLY OTHER NEW SOME TIME COULD THESE TWO MAY THEN DO FIRST ANY MY NOW SUCH LIKE OUR OVER MAN ME EVEN MOST MADE AFTER ALSO DID MANY BEFORE MUST THROUGH BACK WHERE MUCH YOUR WAY WELL DOWN SHOULD BECAUSE EACH JUST THOSE PEOPLE HOW TOO LITTLE STATE GOOD VERY MAKE WORLD STILL OWN SEE MEN WORK LONG HERE GET BOTH BETWEEN LIFE BEING UNDER NEVER SAME DAY ANOTHER KNOW WHILE LAST MIGHT US GREAT OLD YEAR OFF COME SINCE GO AGAINST CAME RIGHT TAKE THREE HIMSELF FEW HOUSE USE DURING WITHOUT AGAIN PLACE 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PARTICULAR RECENT HOPE LIVE ELSE BROWN BEYOND PERSON COMING DEAD INSIDE REPORT LOW STAGE MATERIAL INSTEAD READ HEART LOST DATA AMOUNT PAY SINGLE COLD MOVE HUNDRED RESEARCH BASIC INDUSTRY TRIED HOLD COMMITTEE ISLAND EQUIPMENT DEFENSE ACTUALLY SON SHOWN TEN RIVER RELIGIOUS SORT CENTRAL DOING REST INDEED CARE PICTURE DIFFICULT SIMPLE FINE SUBJECT RANGE WALL MEETING FLOOR BRING FOREIGN CENT PAPER SIMILAR FINAL NATURAL PROPERTY COUNTY MARKET POLICE GROWTH INTERNATIONAL START TALK WRITTEN STORY HEAR ANSWER NEEDS HALL ISSUE CONGRESS WORKING LIKELY EARTH SAT PURPOSE LABOR STAND MEET DIFFERENCE HAIR PRODUCTION FOOD FALL STOCK WHOM SENT LETTER PAID CLUB KNOWLEDGE HOUR YES CHRISTIAN SQUARE READY BLUE BILL TRADE INDUSTRIAL DEAL BAD MORAL DUE ADDITION METHOD NEITHER THROUGHOUT COLOR TRY ANYONE READING LAY NATION FRENCH REMEMBER SIZE PHYSICAL UNDERSTAND RECORD WESTERN MEMBER SOUTHERN NORMAL STRENGTH POPULATION VOLUME DISTRICT TEMPERATURE TROUBLE SUMMER MAYBE RAN TRIAL LIST FRIEND EVENING LITERATURE 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