While studying some data on the relative frequency of use of different words in the English language, I noticed a rather interesting functional relationship which is here communicated. The note which follows, admittedly incomplete, is published in this form because the subject is one which I can not pursue and which may be of interest to those who are actively enagaged in the study of language.
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E. U. Condon (1928) studied this question.