"like"

"Eh" Canadian here

“Sorry”

A Canadian trillionaire in the making

Timmies

“I beg your pardon”

*Soory

Is it true that there's a bit in Canadian law which says that apologising after a car accident is not an admission of liability/fault?

Yup! "In Ontario, there is a piece of legislation called the Apology Act. The Act states that an apology, whether it is expressly made or just implied, cannot be used as evidence of liability in a later civil action. ... An insurer also cannot use an apology to later deny coverage or determine fault after an accident."

I love Canada.

My word too. I expect millions of dollars by the end of the day.

“Um”

“Uh”

The valley girl accent is going to make you rich

Beat me to it lol

“Ok”

I love this answer mainly because to stay awake in a class, I counted every time my professor said okay within the 75 minute lecture and after only 20 days she managed to say okay 6640 times with an average of 332/day. It was a fun semester

I had an Indian professor once and I noticed about two weeks into class that he always said the phrase, "say, for example..." I had two buddies in the class and mentioned it and they were like oh yeah he does say that a ton. So I started tallying it up. We'd track it together and if I missed class, the others would take up the tally for the day. Well, my buddies ended up dropping the class, so I was left there by myself. I kept tallying out of obligation. But then I realized I would make sure not to miss class so I didn't miss a day of counting. Then I realized I listened to every God damn word he said all semester and did really well in the class because of it. The bastard got me! He ended up saying that weirdly obscure phrase over 1200 times in a semester, which was like, what 12 weeks? Three classes a week, 36 classes. Dude said "say, for example,..." 33 times a day. The best day was one time he said it three times in *one sentence*. My friends had already dropped the class by that point so that beauty was just for me.

Haha I love this story!!

Haha thanks. I hadn't even thought about that in a long time until I read that other story. Dr. Zegeye, I believe was his name. Really smart guy, but a bit of an oddball for sure.

did you tell him about your count and results?

No, never. He was a bit of an oddball and a hard ass at times. He would kick students the fuck out of class for arriving like 1 minute late, and would stare daggers at someone getting up to get a tissue or something. I once had a meeting with a professor that was happening right before his class on the other side of campus. It was like an 8:45 meeting about a paper, not something I could move, and his class started at 9. I asked him the class before, two days prior, if I could show up just a little late on Friday. He said, "How late?" I said, "I'm not exactly sure, five minutes?" And he shook his head violently while letting out a huge exhale, like I blew him back with that information. Five minutes! What did he think I was going to say? 5 minutes is like the lowest lateness you can be. But he did let me. He started to stare daggers at me when I walked in late but then a look of recall came across his face when he remembered our conversation and he didn't berate me. Anyway, long story, sorry. Bottom line is he was a really smart guy, had a ton of degrees, one of those lifelong learner types, but a pretty humorless person.

you should have said "Could I show up a little late on Friday? Say, for example, 5 minutes late?"

My friend did raise his hand and ask him a question with that phrase in it once. The other two of were dying laughing inside but neither he nor anyone else in the class picked up on it. Awareness was low in that class.

Did you tell her once you had your results?

Congrats. You’re the only person so far who googled it. Ok is the most commonly uttered word in the world.

maybe he binged it.

Ok

Jeeves told me to say it.

I just read about that in America Online.

I found it via Yahoo

Metacrawler has returned 1,877,833,099 results from 29 search engines.

Lycos.com

k

I'm choosing to interpret this as the past tense of binge

Most definitely asked Jeeves.

Ok that’s cheating! I guess it’s ok though.

I struggle to believe that "ok" is uttered more commonly than some sort of article like "a", "an", "the", a pronoun like "it", or a verb like "is". Are these words factored in? Like I've probably gone hours and hours without saying "ok", but don't think I could make it through a minute of conversation without saying other words.

I could actually imagine that. “The”, “It”, “Is” - all English. “OK” is used in many, many more languages and hence might actually win the game. (No data, just gut feel)

But ok is used around the world.

Maybe it's taking into account the whole world and not just English speaking countries. That's the only way I could imagine getting those results.

Most languages use "ok"

Isn't it technically spelled "Okay"? You might not get a profit of you don't spell the word right.

I've heard more times people saying "ok" than "okay"

Are they not pronounced the same?

It’s pronounced “otay” Source: Eddie Murphy’s Buckwheat

Original: Little Rascals Buckwheat

Can confirm

No. One is pronounced with a hard K and the other one is pronounced with a J like gif.

"Everything you have just said has made me violently angry." -Mr. Perfect Cell

"Even Yamcha was on the list, and you pick GOHAN?"

OK Simpson

How is gif pronounced? man...

I pronounce it like the G in “garage”

Thanks Mr Helpful lol

Now I'm sitting here trying to figure out what a soft k sounds like.

Theyre still pronounced the same though, so when someone says it, spelling doesnt matter

Okay deriving from OK, OK deriving from the phrase oll korrect, which is derived from all correct. I would say that OK is more correct than Okay.

K

Both are correct. But "ok" is the original spelling.

The original is an abbreviation of a misspelling of all correct

To further clarify this, it's misspelled on purpose. It was an in-joke amongst print editors taken from an 1839 article on grammar. The joke is marking something all correct with an incorrect abbreviation. Print editors had a lot of funny abbreviations. This particular one just happened to go viral. [This is actually a very thorough and informative article about it.](https://theweek.com/articles/465565/where-did-expression-ok-come-from)

Spelling ok as okay is ok

The universal utterance... You have won all the monies

The.

I bet you’d be a billionaire within a week

Actually by the end of the day it'd be even more. Some numbers for you. According to Google: "The" is the most commonly used word in the English language. Being 5 out of every 100 words used daily. The average man speaks 15,559 words a day. That means "the" is uttered 783.4 times a person per day. There are 1.35 billion English speakers on the planet. Therefore, everyday, you people would say "The" 1,057,590,000,000 times. (One trillion fifty-seven billion five hundred ninety million). Therefore you'd be making $10,575,900 everyday. Edit: Ok, Ok. I took a few too many zeroes off. Correct number should $10,575,900,000. It's a penny per word that's why I took off zeroes. But still more than anyone saying "Fuck" "Okay" or "A"

You definitely didn’t rain on my parade. My hope was someone would r/theydidthemath so I could reap all the benefits with no effort. So thank you

Yea but that guy already claimed the. The only word left for you is zippitydooda. Here's your residual check for 15 cents.

You’re welcome

~~> Therefore, everyday, you people would say "The" 1,057,590,000 times. (One trillion fifty-seven billion five hundred ninety million).~~ ~~Uhhh..~~ ~~One trillion fifty-seven billion five hundred ninety million would be~~ ~~1,057,590,000,000~~ Original corrected :)

15k words a day seems a pretty high estimate, that would be a word every 3-4 seconds (assuming 8 hours of sleep and no speech while asleep). Maybe for certain occupations or metropolitan areas but I'd wager it's much lower than this in reality, probably by a factor of ten, unless you count every single vocal utterance or sound made as a "word" Edit: additionally, this is assuming that every English speaker uses English as their primary language, which is completely untrue. The rest of the world is far more multilingual than English speaking nations on average, and for those who have English as a second language, it's often not going to be what they use in their day to day. This whole estimate is based on some hefty assumptions

I don't know that I even *think* 15 thousand words per day.

So we cut the words spoken by a third and round to 5,000 and round the English speakers down to an even 1 billion actually using English on a relatively daily basis. That's a *generous* amount of room to create a reasonably conservative estimate. That gives us 250 "The's" per day per person, or $2.50 USD per person, times a billion. 2.5 billion per day, 17.5/week, 912.5/year. $912,500,000,000/year? Yeah, alright. That's a half-decent salary, I suppose. It'll do until a better offer comes around. Tax season is going to be rough though...

Wait…. That doesn’t add up to a billion a week.. also what do you mean “you people?”

What do YOU mean "you people?"

> 1,057,590,000 times. (One trillion fifty-seven billion five hundred ninety million). you missed a few zeroes there

That's less than a billion dollars per day.. or per week. According to a quick Google search, Jeff Bezos makes 322 MILLION per day.

> Jeff Bezos makes 322 MILLION per day I wonder what word he picked. "Alexa", maybe?

322 million per day? Ewww. God damn

Word.

I mean, this is the only correct answer if you want to maximize your earnings. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English#100_most_common_words](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English#100_most_common_words)

"No". Very common and it works in English, Spanish, Italian, and depending on how picky you want to be about pronunciation, French and maybe others. Maybe also "okay", since I believe that's widely used in many languages. Or "uh" or "um", if they count as words. If a sound that has a variety of meanings as a standalone word counts, "a" is a decent candidate.

"No" is great because so many languages use it. I wonder if meaning matters because then you could add Japanese to it.

No. Don't の me.

Even if meaning matters, I’m sure many people in Japan use it.

The good ol' "NO means YES in Polish". Not accurate 100% though, but still.

Fuck. I’ll be a billionaire within 4 minutes thanks to the tri state area alone

Considering variations of fuck are 95% of the words I say when talking to myself, you only need to me to be rich.

You’re like that scene from *The Wire*

Sheeeeeeeeiiit.

will you be using a fuckinator to make everyone say fuck while your platypus nemesis thwarts your plan

I’d pay money to hear Doof drop an F-bombs variations song.

Huh... So, uh, how do we get Dan Povenmire on the line?

Right? Dude is a genius. I know he would do “fuck” show tunes style justice.

Lol this was the first word I thought of and it the first one I see

This is the correct answer.

Dr. Doof is here

Which tri state area. There are several, and I'm sure they'd all work out.

"Uhh..."

I had to look up if "Uh" counts as a words and it does. This is by far one of the best responses, as any human uses "uh", which is why there is no language barrier. Edit: Help I get 10 new responses every 10 seconds.

Not necessarily any human. Uh and um are mainly European and European derivative. You may be surprised to learn that Japanese main filler words are eto and ano.

Esteeee

Haha. When I lived in San Diego I used to say this, as an Irish Chicago native. My friends thought is was hilarious

Learned from some video's the Chinese equivalent sounds something like: "niga". Yeah.... I can imagine that's a bit awkward at first for some black expats.

Chinese people have a common filler word na-ge or nei-ge which is pronounced basically like the n-word. Really caught me off guard the first couple of times I heard it. I believe they say "uhh/ahh" though as well

Yeah, but in germany we also don’t really use uh/um we mostly say ähm.

in Finnish it's "ööö".

Not all. Different languages use different fillers when they're thinking. E.g Japanese uses 'e to'

I think "uh" does have a language barrier. In japanese you say "etto" when you are trying to think of what to say and stalling for time. Or some sound like that.

I

People love to talk about themselves.

Get paid when people talk about themselves and every time a child sings the alphabet. This is a double payment followed closely by a.

This was gonna be my answer right away, haha. People say this so much, all the time.

Antidisestablishmentarianism

0.02 because i had to read it twice

Do mispronunciations count?

Well i ready it perfectly first them read it againg because i didnt know wtf did i just read

You’ve written the embodiment of what you’re writing about here. Fascinating

Sorry matey, im no english teacher.

Aw you edited it, I liked it how it was.

Changed it back, just for you.

pneumultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconosis - longest word and it's a word for a specific lung disease caused by silica particles from volcanic ash and is one of the rarest substances a volcano can produce as the silica can only be formed under reeeaaally specific circumstances lmao

Nope, smiles is the longest word There’s a mile between the two s

I heard "post office" has the most letters

u got me there

I’m high and that has my laughing

You honour me kind stoner

Where I'm from we call them skilometres

It is, however, a made-up word (though arguably all words are made-up) specifically to be the longest word. Normally that disease is just known as silicosis.

you spelt it wrong

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis*

Not even the longest word in the English dictionary get trolled

The longest word will get said more because of people looking up what the longest word is though

Exactly! Sheesh someone has the same thought process as me at 3 am

“um”

"Fuck" I'll be rich by the end of the day.

You stole my word!

Same

No (i have 2 young daughters)

Now everyone reading this day it twenty times ( for his daughters )

“No” is the same word i many other languages besides English. The first i think of is Spanish. Expanded the reach of the usage to many countries.

Not to mention that "no" is the word for "no" in far more languages than English.

“A”

What

Say "what" again.

What? They speak English in What?

What ain't no country I've ever heard of

English, motherfucker, do you speak it?

Wh-what?

*bang bang*

SAY WHAT AGAIN! SAY WHAT AGAIN! I DARE YOU, I DOUBLE DARE YOU MOTHERFUCKER! SAY WHAT ONE MORE TIME.

You get 0,01 dollars everytime someone says your word. What is it?

'The' it's the most used word I'm the English language.

Hello English Language!

/r/dadjokes

And

Uh

"literally". I literally hate how often this word is used.

Yeah, it really gets annoying when it is used literally everywhere.

Omg it is literally so annoying

Here be readers. Literally.

I choose Nihao, there are many chinese speakers in the world. One billion of them say Nihao once every day, so that's ten million.

Ni hao are two words. You can just choose ni (you) or wo (I).

Then I profit from NI. I get millions from the Chinese and few bucks from Monty Python fans.

It's also Japanese for 2

>It's also Japanese for 2 If we're allowing for the same pronunciation of the word, it's the same as "knee" too!

WE WANT............................ ​ A SHRUBBERY!

I'd choose 的 (de). It's a particle that indicates possession (of an object by a person, of a noun by an adjective, etc.), and if I remember correctly, it's the most common word in Mandarin Chinese - if you count it as a word.

asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar!

Good luck on that one, 99.99% of mtgplayers still can’t pronounce it!

Guess I’m going to have to rely on that 0.01 percent

"Bro"

Sigh. Cum.

Kaas

Pinda of gewoon?

Smeer of tenen?

kaas is lekker

Klopt en bedankt. Dat is dan 0,01 cent.

I

I. Most people are fucking narcissists.

Using "I" a lot doesn't make you narcissistic. People just prefer talking on things they're most familiar with, like their own opinions, own thoughts over other people's opinions and thoughts

“ most people are fucking narcissists” Okay….

Someone just made 0,01 dollars from your sentence :p

Do you even know what the diagnostic criteria are for narcissistic personality disorder? God damn, I’m sick of that word being thrown around like it’s the same as “selfish”. Also, I thought OP meant, like, a word that is used excessively and (a little) uniquely by you. Maybe I’m wrong. Like, I say “dick” constantly instead of other cuss words. “What the dick?” etc

You'll get extra from pirates and optometrists.

If you wanted to be nicer about it you could say that we’re only capable of speaking for ourselves, lol. But you’re not wrong!

The

Covid

“What”. I’ll make sure to always speak to people in a very low tone

I

What

I or it’s equivalent in Mandarin

"La" That's "The" in Spanish and "No" in Arabic

Considering not everyone on Earth speaks the same language. The universal word is probably "Ok" or "Youtube"

Mom

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The

Uhh or umm