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Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: God, the second title in The Good Portion series.

The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works. 

                     

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Saturday
Jan242009

Vulgar Language

DateSaturday, January 24, 2009 at 2:00PM

Let’s say you have 12 minutes to name the 100 most commonly used words in the English language. How many would you get?

I got 59 of them. Can you beat me?

Find out.

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Gah! You beat me by ONE! 58. That was tricky.

January 24, 2009 | Unregistered Commentermissmellifluous

Hello Miss Melly,

Wasn't that fun?

January 24, 2009 | Registered Commenterrebecca

Hello Rebecca! It was fun and frustrating all at once. You'd think a fluent user of the language would know more common words! Alas!

January 24, 2009 | Unregistered Commentermissmellifluous

53. I am so ashamed...

January 24, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterjen elslager

I got 68.... I can't believe I missed "but."

January 24, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKim in On

does "uh" count?

January 24, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMzEllen

(73)

January 24, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMzEllen

I'm impressed with Kim and MzEllen.

January 24, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterrebecca

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