Plain English Lexicon
Not sure whether ‘determine’ is an easier word than ‘terminate’, whether ‘perpetrator’ is easier than ‘wrongdoer’, or whether ‘while’ is more common than ‘whilst’? It's often hard to know what words your readers are likely to understand or to see regularly. Now, our unique Plain English Lexicon enables you to make informed decisions about the familiarity and frequency of 1,200 words that sometimes occur in public-information documents. The lexicon draws on 2 important pieces of research evidence: the US ‘Living Word Vocabulary’ and the British National Corpus of 100m words.
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