THORNDIKE (Thorndike-Lorge Magazine Count)
Notes provided by

    Roger Mitton, Dept of Computer Science,
    Birkbeck College, Malet Street,
    London WC1E 7HX

    November 1984


     THORNDIKE  contains  over  19,000  entries  from   'The
Teacher's Word Book of 30,000 Words' by Edward L.  Thorndike
and Irving Lorge, Bureau of Publications, Teachers  College,
Columbia University, New York, 1944.

     Each  line  of  the  file  contains  one  entry  of  27
characters.  The frequency per 4.5 million words (approx) is
in columns 1-6, followed by the entry itself,  beginning  in
column 8.

     The words are those in the principal list  (Part  1  of
the  book)  entitled  'List of words occurring at least once
per 1,000,000 words'.  The numbers  give  the  frequency  of
occurrence  in the Lorge Magazine Count (the L column in the
book).  (Where the value  is  given  in  the  book  as  'M',
indicating  a frequency of over 1000 per million, the actual
value has been taken  from  Part  4  of  the  book.)  It  is
possible  for  a  word to have a frequency of 0 (zero) since
the list was formed out of several word lists;  a value of 0
indicates  that  the  word did not occur at all in the Lorge
Magazine Count but did occur in at least one  of  the  other
lists.

     Page 252 of the book gives the following description of
the Lorge Magazine Count:

'The Lorge magazine count included nearly  a  million  words
from  each of the following:  Saturday Evening Post, Woman's
Home  Companion,  Ladies'  Home  Journal,  True  Story,  and
Reader's  Digest.   [A  bit less than a million from each of
these would make up 'approximately 4.5 million' - the figure
given on page IX of the Introduction.] Twelve issues of each
magazine, spread somewhat evenly over the years 1927 through
1938,  were used.  The count was made by counting separately
every combination of letters found.  For example, arm, arms,
arm's, arms', arming, and armed were counted separately.'

     Words in the book list beginning with  capital  letters
are  preceded in the THORNDIKE file by a $, and they come at
the beginning of the file.

     There follows a sample of the file

First 50 lines, then 10 lines every  2000, then the last 50.


Line     1
000010 $A.$D.
000021 $A.$M.(A.M.)
000006 $AARON
000011 $ABBOTT
000119 $ABE
000005 $ABERDEEN
000047 $ABRAHAM
000000 $ABRAM
000006 $ABSALOM
000002 $ABYSSINIA
000001 $ACHILLES
000000 $ACRE
000037 $ADAM
000047 $ADAMS
000005 $ADDISON
000002 $ADELAIDE
000004 $ADIRONDACK(S)
000004 $ADONIS
000165 $ADRIAN
000001 $ADRIATIC
000000 $AEGEAN
000000 $AENEAS
000000 $AEOLUS
000000 $AESIR
000000 $AFGHANISTAN
000122 $AFRICA
000021 $AFRICAN
000000 $AGAMEMNON
000000 $AGASSIZ
000082 $AGATHA
000123 $AGNES
000009 $AIREDALE
000030 $ALABAMA
000007 $ALADDIN
000276 $ALAN
000057 $ALASKA
000014 $ALASKAN
000003 $ALBA $LONGA
000000 $ALBAN
000015 $ALBANIA(N)
000017 $ALBANY
000000 $ALBERMARLE
000086 $ALBERT
000001 $ALBION
000005 $ALBUQUERQUE
000000 $ALCESTIS
000004 $ALCOTT
000000 $ALENCON
000050 $ALEXANDER
000011 $ALEXANDRIA(N)

Line  2001
000004 $SPOKANE
000035 $SPRINGFIELD
000179 $ST.
000013 $ST. $JOHN
000010 $ST. $LAWRENCE
000068 $ST. $LOUIS
000033 $ST. $PAUL
000000 $STA=EL
000006 $STAFFORD
000018 $STALIN

Line  4001
000018 BOOKSHOP
000135 BOOM
000009 BOOMERANG
000024 BOON
000000 BOOR
000015 BOOST
000134 BOOT
000093 BOOTH($B)
000041 BOOTLEG(GING)
000035 BOOTLEGGER

Line  6001
000038 CYNICAL
000013 CYNICALLY
000010 CYNICISM
000015 CYPRESS
000005 CYST
000020 CZAR
000000 DA
000018 DAB
000013 DABBLE
000697 DAD

Line  8001
001540 FEET
000010 FEIGN
000004 FEINT
000000 FELDSPAR
000031 FELICITY
000009 FELINE
000683 FELL
000860 FELLOW
000002 FELLOW CITIZEN
000022 FELLOWSHIP

Line 10001
000016 IMPRINT
000043 IMPRISON
000020 IMPRISONMENT
000014 IMPROBABLE
000023 IMPROMPTU
000015 IMPROPER
000011 IMPROPERLY
000003 IMPROPRIETY
000269 IMPROVE
000163 IMPROVEMENT

Line 12001
000032 MISUNDERSTAND
000023 MISUNDERSTANDING(N.)
000023 MISUNDERSTOOD
000008 MISUSE
000025 MITE
000002 MITER(RE)
000010 MITIGATE
000008 MITT
000031 MITTEN
000339 MIX

Line 14001
000254 PRINCESS
000139 PRINCIPAL
000000 PRINCIPALITY
000028 PRINCIPALLY
000266 PRINCIPLE
000429 PRINT(ING)
000021 PRINTER
000000 PRINTING PRESS
000028 PRIOR
000004 PRIORITY

Line 16001
000002 SILICON
000358 SILK
000043 SILKEN
000002 SILKWORM
000023 SILKY
000046 SILL
000329 SILLY
000004 SILT
000334 SILVER
000009 SILVERWARE

Line 18001
000008 TRUCULENT
000035 TRUDGE
001711 TRUE
000004 TRUISM
000168 TRULY
000014 TRUMP
000037 TRUMPET
000006 TRUMPETER
000000 TRUNCHEON
000009 TRUNDLE

Line 19440
000597 YELLOW
000001 YELLOW FEVER
000008 YELLOWISH
000023 YELP
000022 YEN
000002 YEOMAN
000000 YEOMANRY
000015 YEP
002202 YES
000290 YESTERDAY
002057 YET
000003 YEW
000179 YIELD
000007 YIELDING(ADJ.)
000018 YOGI
000016 YOKE
000029 YOLK
000009 YON
000028 YONDER
000035 YORE
042581 YOU
001000 YOU,VE
000805 YOU'D
001156 YOU'LL
002051 YOU'RE
003972 YOUNG
000200 YOUNGSTER
009052 YOUR
000359 YOURS
000907 YOURSELF(VES)
000480 YOUTH
000099 YOUTHFUL
000001 YUCCA
000022 ZEAL
000001 ZEALOT
000015 ZEALOUS
000002 ZEALOUSLY
000005 ZEBRA
000002 ZENITH
000006 ZEPHYR
000050 ZERO
000042 ZEST
000026 ZIGZAG
000009 ZINC
000003 ZODIAC
000051 ZONE
000016 ZOO
000003 ZOOLOGICAL
000000 ZOOLOGIST
000000 ZOOLOGY

Last line was line 19489.