My Brother Was Bored and Tallied the Words in Green Eggs and Ham...
My brother has always liked to count things. (Years ago he figured out that may parents were married for 10,000 days, so we threw them a 10,000 day anniversary party, for example.) He recently had surgery on his shoulder and is off work for a few weeks and apparently he's making the most of the extra time by doing things like counting the number of times each word appears in Green Eggs and Ham. Here's his word tally. (It's Seuss' birthday month, after all.)
- 85--I
- 84--not
- 61--them, a
- 44--like
- 40--in
- 37--do
- 34--you
- 26--would
- 25--eat
- 24--and
- 21--will
- 19--Sam, with
- 15--am
- 14--could
- 11--here, green, eggs, ham, the
- 9--train, there
- 8--or, anywhere, house, mouse
- 7--on, dark, box, car, fox
- 6--tree
- 5--so, say
- 4--me, may, be, goat, see, rain, try, let
- 3--boat, that
- 2--are, good, they, thank
- 1--if
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