"memorial on the side of the road, to kneel down and say that she saw him, answering his question asked earlier in the video ""What do you see?"" when they were talking about the future. The music video was directed by Shaun Silva in early 2006. Rascal Flatts' version of the song is set in the key of F minor, with a vocal range of E♭3-C 5. The main chord pattern is Fm-D♭-A♭-E♭. From ""Me and My Gang"" liner notes. In 2007, German Eurodance trio Cascada recorded a cover of ""What Hurts the Most"" for their second studio album, ""Perfect"
"""The"" is the most commonly used word in the English language, accounting for 7% of all words. ""The"" can be used with both singular and plural nouns, with nouns of any gender, and with nouns that start with any letter. This is different from many other languages which have different articles for different genders and/or numbers. Since ""the"" is one of the most frequently used words in English, at various times short abbreviations for it have been found: Occasional proposals have been made by individuals for an abbreviation. In 1916, Legros & Grant included in their classic printers' handbook ""Typographical"
"The The is a grammatical article in English, denoting person(s) or thing(s) already mentioned, under discussion, implied, or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners or readers. It is the only definite article in English. ""The"" is the most commonly used word in the English language, accounting for 7% of all words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which merged in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of either gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns and with nouns that start with any letter. This is different from many"
"frequent word will occur approximately twice as often as the second most frequent word, three times as often as the third most frequent word, etc.: the rank-frequency distribution is an inverse relation. For example, in the Brown Corpus of American English text, the word ""the"" is the most frequently occurring word, and by itself accounts for nearly 7% of all word occurrences (69,971 out of slightly over 1 million). True to Zipf's Law, the second-place word ""of"" accounts for slightly over 3.5% of words (36,411 occurrences), followed by ""and"" (28,852). Only 135 vocabulary items are needed to account for half"
"King James Version of the Bible in places such as Romans 15:29, or in the Mayflower Compact. Historically, the article was never pronounced with a ""y"" sound, even when so written. The The is a grammatical article in English, denoting person(s) or thing(s) already mentioned, under discussion, implied, or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners or readers. It is the only definite article in English. ""The"" is the most commonly used word in the English language, accounting for 7% of all words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which merged in Middle English and now has a single"
"other than ""l"", practice varies for some words, such as where the final syllable has secondary stress or an unreduced vowel. In the United States, the spellings ""kidnaped"" and ""worshiped"", which were introduced by the ""Chicago Tribune"" in the 1920s, are common, but ""kidnapped"" and ""worshipped"" prevail. ""Kidnapped"" and ""worshipped"" are the only standard British spellings. However, ""focused"" is the predominant spelling in both British and American English, ""focussed"" being just a minor variant in British English. Miscellaneous: Conversely, there are words where British writers prefer a single ""l"" and Americans a double ""l"". In American usage, the spelling of"
"of the two pronunciations, but the stressed-second-syllable variant has been established for over 75 years. It has been suggested that speakers of British English prefer () while North American speakers more typically use (), but major American dictionaries and other sources list the stress on the third syllable as more common in American English too. According to the American version of Oxford Online Dictionaries, the stress on the second syllable is becoming more common in UK English and is increasingly considered ""by some"" to be more up to date and more ""correct"". The Oxford Online Dictionaries claim that the stress"
"is likely to be the word ""the,"" but since ""the"" is the most commonly used word in the English language, it is probable that any given document will have the word ""the"" used very frequently. However, a phrase like ""explicit Boolean algorithm"" might occur in the document at a much higher rate than its average rate in the English language. Hence, it is a phrase unlikely to occur in any given document, but ""did"" occur in the document given. ""Explicit Boolean algorithm"" would be a statistically improbable phrase. Statistically improbable phrases of Darwin's ""On the Origin of Species"" could be:"
"""the dog's name"". The reference is also found in Ben Jonson's ""English Grammar"". The letter is the eighth most common letter in English and the fourth-most common consonant (after , , and ). The letter is used to form the ending ""-re"", which is used in certain words such as ""centre"" in some varieties of English spelling, such as British English. Canadian English also uses the ""-re"" ending, unlike American English, where the ending is usually replaced by ""-er"" (""center""). This does not affect pronunciation. represents a rhotic consonant in many languages, as shown in the table below. Other languages"
"a sample or test case or as random, meaningless nonsense. It is also a common learning tool for keyboard classes, since all four keys are located on Home row. ETAOIN SHRDLU is the approximate order of frequency of the twelve most commonly used letters in the English language, best known as a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print in the days of ""hot type"" publishing due to a custom of Linotype machine operators. ""Lorem ipsum..."" is one of the most common filler texts, popular with typesetters and graphic designers. ""Li Europan lingues..."" is another similar example. ""Now is the"
"presses. An analysis of entries in the Concise Oxford dictionary, ignoring frequency of word use, gives an order of ""EARIOTNSLCUDPMHGBFYWKVXZJQ"". The letter-frequency table below is taken from Pavel Mička's website, which cites Robert Lewand's ""Cryptological Mathematics"". According to Lewand, arranged from most to least common in appearance, the letters are: etaoinshrdlcumwfgypbvkjxqz. Lewand's ordering differs slightly from others, such as Cornell University Math Explorer's Project, which produced a table after measuring 40,000 words. In English, the space is slightly more frequent than the top letter (e) and the non-alphabetic characters (digits, punctuation, etc.) collectively occupy the fourth position (having already included"
"In English writing, quotation marks are placed in pairs around a word or phrase to indicate: In American writing, double quotes are used normally (the primary style). If quote marks are used inside another pair of quote marks, then single quotes are used as the secondary style. For example: ""Didn't she say 'I like red best' when I asked her wine preferences?"" he asked his guests. If another set of quotes is nested, double quotes are used again, and they continue to alternate as necessary (though this is rarely done). British publishing is regarded as more flexible about whether double"
"other phenomena, and formed the basis for many later corpora such as the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus. The tagged corpus enabled far more sophisticated statistical analysis, much of it carried out by graduate student Andrew Mackie. Some of the analysis appears in ""Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar"", by Winthrop Nelson Francis and Henry Kučera, Houghton Mifflin (January, 1983) . One interesting result is that even for quite large samples, graphing words in order of decreasing frequency of occurrence shows a hyperbola: the frequency of the ""n""-th most frequent word is roughly proportional to 1/""n"". Thus ""the"" constitutes nearly 7%"
"language, ""N"" is the number of words in the English language and, if we use the classic version of Zipf's law, the exponent ""s"" is 1. ""f""(""k""; ""s"",""N"") will then be the fraction of the time the ""k""th most common word occurs. The law may also be written: where ""H"" is the ""N""th generalized harmonic number. The simplest case of Zipf's law is a ""⁄ function."" Given a set of Zipfian distributed frequencies, sorted from most common to least common, the second most common frequency will occur ½ as often as the first. The third most common frequency will occur"
"English as the international language of trade and commerce (a ""lingua franca""), English has also become the most widely used second language. In countries where English is neither a native language nor widely spoken, a non-native variant (typically English English or North American English) might be considered ""standard"" for teaching purposes. In some areas a pidgin or creole language, blends English with one or more native languages. Although the standard Englishes of the various anglophone countries are very similar, often there are minor grammatical differences between them, as well as numerous vocabulary divergences. In American and Australian English, for example,"
"have learned it as a second language than there are native speakers. English is the most commonly spoken language in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, and it is widely spoken in some areas of the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia. It is a co-official language of the United Nations, the European Union and many other world and regional international organisations. It is the most widely spoken Germanic language, accounting for at least 70% of speakers of this Indo-European branch. English has a vast vocabulary, though counting how many words any language has is"
"common word in English, ""the"", is written simply 𐑄, as the letter's name is and that is the stressed pronunciation of the word. The consonants with syllabic values are 𐐶 (woo), 𐐷 (yee), 𐐸 (ha), 𐐹 (pee), 𐐺 (be/bee), 𐐻 (tee/tea), 𐐽 (qi), 𐐾 (gee), 𐑀 (gay), and 𐑄 (the/thee). Syllabic values do not apply within words, although this was formerly the case. In early documents, Watt writes ""people"" as 𐐹𐐹𐑊 with the expectation that readers will interpret the first 𐐹 as , but the second 𐐹 as . This contextual value switching was soon done away with, so in"
"with British English next with about 18% and other varieties such as Australian English and Canadian English having up to 7% each. Due to globalization in recent decades, English is becoming increasingly decentralized, with daily use and statewide study of the language in schools growing in most regions of the world. British and American English are the two most commonly taught varieties in the education systems where English is taught as a second language. British English tends to predominate in former colonies where English is not the first language of the majority of the population, such as Malaysia, India, Pakistan,"
"T T (named ""tee"" ) is the 20th letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in English-language texts. ""Taw"" was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets. The sound value of Semitic ""Taw"", Greek alphabet Tαυ (""Tau""), Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing in each of these; and it has also kept its original basic shape in most of these alphabets. In English, usually denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive ( and X-SAMPA: ), as in"
"precede. In languages that employ articles, every common noun, with some exceptions, is expressed with a certain definiteness, definite or indefinite, as an attribute (similar to the way many languages express every noun with a certain grammatical number—singular or plural—or a grammatical gender). Articles are among the most common words in many languages; in English, for example, the most frequent word is ""the"". Articles are usually categorized as either ""definite"" or ""indefinite"". A few languages with well-developed systems of articles may distinguish additional subtypes. Within each type, languages may have various forms of each article, due to conforming to grammatical"
"the most frequently learned, most commonly used English words. Both tools use these words. But many words are chosen for the intended purpose. For example, Special English uses words a US government news broadcaster might need, such as Congress, federal, administration, capitalism and recession. Specialized replaces some of these words with words used for religious subjects, such as blessing, prayer, miracle, and faith. Further revisions of the Specialized English list were made in 2000 and 2007, in the light of experience. Still, the overlap of the two vocabularies is 91.3%. The Specialized English word list allows greater breadth of meaning"
"ER IN ON AT ND ST ES EN OF TE ED OR TI HI AS TO"", and the most common doubled letters as ""LL EE SS OO TT FF RR NN PP CC"". Also, to note that different dialects of a language will also affect a letter's frequency. For example, an author in the United States would produce something in which the letter 'z' is more common than an author in the United Kingdom writing on the same topic: words like ""analyze"", ""apologize"", and ""recognize"" contain the letter in American English, whereas the same words are spelled ""analyse"", ""apologise"", and"
"speak English. Books, magazines, and newspapers written in English are available in many countries around the world, and English is the most commonly used language in the sciences with Science Citation Index reporting as early as 1997 that 95% of its articles were written in English, even though only half of them came from authors in English-speaking countries. In publishing, English literature predominates considerably with 28 percent of all books published in the world [leclerc 2011] and 30 percent of web content in 2011 (down from 50 percent in 2000). This increasing use of the English language globally has had"
"better works. In British Sign Language (BSL), the letter 'e' is signed by extending the index finger of the right hand touching the tip of index on the left hand, with all fingers of left hand open. E E (named ""e"" , plural ""ees"") is the fifth letter and the second vowel in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in many languages, including Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon,"
"E E (named ""e"" , plural ""ees"") is the fifth letter and the second vowel in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in many languages, including Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. This in turn comes from the Semitic letter ""hê"", which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure (""hillul"" 'jubilation'), and was probably based on a similar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicated"
"years. The most commonly used words in English are West Germanic. The words in English learned first by children as they learn to speak, particularly the grammatical words that dominate the word count of both spoken and written texts, are mainly the Germanic words inherited from the earliest periods of the development of Old English. But one of the consequences of long language contact between French and English in all stages of their development is that the vocabulary of English has a very high percentage of ""Latinate"" words (derived from French, especially, and also from Latin and other Romance languages)."
"a category that refers inclusively to Hindi and Indian languages, with English, led to the emergence of the linguistic phenomenon now known as Hinglish. Many common Indic words such as 'pyjamas', 'karma', 'guru' and 'yoga' were incorporated into English usage, and vice versa ('road', 'sweater', and 'plate'). This is in parallel with several other similar hybrids around the world, like Spanglish (Spanish + English) and Taglish (Tagalog + English). In recent years, due to an increase in literacy and connectivity, the interchange of languages has reached new heights, especially due to increasing online immersion. English is the most widely used"
"a short vowel, the way for example P is doubled to indicate the difference between 'super' and 'supper'. However, that is changing with newly coined words, such as 'divvy up' and 'skivvies'. Like J, K, Q, X, and Z, V is not used very frequently in English. It is the sixth least frequently used letter in the English language, with a frequency of about 1.03% in words. V is the only letter that cannot be used to form an English two-letter word in the Australian version of the game of Scrabble. C also cannot be used in the American version."
"the word in English can be inconsistent. ""Hummus"" is the most common spelling in both American and British English. The spelling ""houmous"" is however common enough in British English to be also listed as a less common spelling in some UK dictionaries but not, for example, in the Cambridge online dictionary. Some US dictionaries also list other spellings such as ""humus"", ""hommus"", and ""hommos"", but not Merriam-Webster, for example. The earliest known recipes for a dish similar to ""hummus bi tahina"" are recorded in cookbooks written in Cairo in the 13th century. A cold purée of chickpeas with vinegar and"
"the alphabet appear more often than others; in English, ""E"" is likely to be the most common letter in any sample of plaintext. Similarly, the digraph ""TH"" is the most likely pair of letters in English, and so on. Frequency analysis relies on a cipher failing to hide these statistics. For example, in a simple substitution cipher (where each letter is simply replaced with another), the most frequent letter in the ciphertext would be a likely candidate for ""E"". Frequency analysis of such a cipher is therefore relatively easy, provided that the ciphertext is long enough to give a reasonably"
"has been derived from frequency of use (FoU) statistics, plus additional considerations, such as the most frequent two- and three-letter combinations found in words. As much as possible, such combinations need to be placed as non-blocking sequences. Whilst the letter E is normally regarded as the most common letter in the English language, one should not ignore the Space character, as it is nearly twice as frequent; additionally, in punctuation, the comma and full-stop are more frequent than the letters KVJZXQ. Directional or cursor keys have also been subject to changes in design approach. Whilst the earlier PC-XT compatible Model"
"an unstressed ""h"" is more common generally in British English than in American. American writers normally use ""a"" in all these cases, although there are occasional uses of ""an historic(al)"" in American English. According to the New Oxford Dictionary of English, such use is increasingly rare in British English too. Unlike British English, American English typically uses ""an"" before ""herb"", since the ""h"" in this word is silent for most Americans. The correct usage in respect of the term ""hereditary peer"" was the subject of an amendment debated in the UK Parliament. The word ""some"" can be viewed as functionally"
"at primary school level (but third after English and French at lower secondary level), the fourth most widely taught non-English language in the US (after Spanish, French and American Sign Language), and the second most commonly used scientific language as well as the second most widely used language on websites after English. The German-speaking countries are ranked fifth in terms of annual publication of new books, with one tenth of all books (including e-books) in the world being published in the German language. In the United Kingdom, German and French are the most-sought after foreign languages for businesses (with 49%"