THE WORDS AND SOUNDS OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION 295 



Column A: 

 Column B: 



TABLE Ill-a 

 Word List — Numerical Order * 



Words which Occurred in One Per Cent or More 

 of the 500 Telephone Conversations Analyzed 



Total number of times the word (or some form of it) was used. 

 Number of conversations in which the word occurred. 



*In ambiguous cases the part of speech is denoted as follows: noun, n.; verb, v.; 

 adjective or adverb, a.; auxiliary verb, aux.; preposition, prep. 



