WORDCOUNT / Tracking the Way We Use Language

WORDCOUNT is a cool site that tracks 86,800 of the most common words. A few of the rankings:

work: 103
play: 433
sex: 1236
shopping: 2590
buy: 785
give: 188
steal: 7569
born: 1218
kill: 2137
god: 376
devil: 4802
madonna: 9051
shoot: 4800
good: 116
evil: 3274
life: 154
death: 454
america: 992
canada: 3253
bush: 2629
kerry: 14903

The word "condoms" (16309) is only slightly less common than "vagina" (16307). Wow! "Penis" is 10871st.