The source material for this frequency count comes from Open Subtitles [http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search]. Hence t

The source material for this frequency count comes from Open Subtitles [http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search]. Hence the frequencies here apply to spoken English, not written English. In written English the three most common words are "the", "of" and "and", whereas here they are "you", "I", and "the".