Six-Word Memoirs Six-Word Memoirs Six-Word Memoirs is a project founded by the U.S.-based online storytelling magazine "Smith Magazine." Like that publication, "Six-Word Memoirs" seek to provide a platform for storytelling in all its forms. "Smith" was founded January 6, 2006, by Larry Smith and Tim Barko. Taking a cue from novelist Ernest Hemingway, who, according to literary legend, was once challenged to write a short story in only six words, "Smith Magazine" set out to do the same. Hemingway's six-word story read: “.” In November 2006, "Smith's" editors Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser gave the six-word story a personal twist, asking "Smith"
Most common words in Spanish includes samples from all Spanish-speaking countries. The list of "1000 most frequent word forms" comes from an analysis of CREA version 3.2. Plurals, verb conjugations, and other inflections are ranked separately. Homonyms, however, are not distinguished from one another. CREA 3.2 was published in June 2008. In 2006, Mark Davies, an associate professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University, published his estimate of the 5000 most common words in Modern Spanish. To make this list, he compiled samples only from 20th-century sources—especially from the years 1970 to 2000. Most of the sources are from the 1990s. Of the 20 million