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Rank every city in a country by population, or every word in a language by how often it's used, and a strange pattern appears: the top-ranked item is roughly twice as big as the se…
— George Kingsley Zipf, Zipf's law
Linguist George Kingsley Zipf found that a language's most common word appears roughly twice as often as the second most common, three times as often as the third, and so on. This …
— George Kingsley Zipf, Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort