Six-Word Memoirs “Nixon childhood, Reagan teenager, hope finally.” <br> —Tonia Mohammed-Madejczyk, Northport, New York An unexpected personal story was shared by a listener during the Lopate segment: And in an intense few minutes of radio, Anne from Hell’s Kitchen shared her six-word memoir, “I found my mother’s suicide note.” She talked about how important it was for her to come to terms with her mother’s death, and the role of the note in that process. The note, she explained, was just six words: “No flowers, no funeral, no nothing.” Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser went on the "Love & Heartbreak" book tour
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