First, we have already made entries on seventy five words which are not in the 975 Uncommon Words.  We’ll enjoy their entries, and hope that some time in the future I’ll be able to do all the nouns, verbs, and adjectives as Blackwelder did.  Most of these are between 5,000th and 10,000th in the frequency lists, although a few like “eyebrows” are very common words which I could not resist making an entry for.

Second, we will consider the riches before us: the Project Gutenberg frequency lists take us all the way through 100,000 words.  I originally chose to eliminate ten thousand words in order to have a smaller group I could work with in my limited time frame, words which were uncommon enough to be of interest, words which Richard Blackwelder would have loved to notice.

Let’s see what happens when I increase my filter.  Will we reveal the gem-words, the scop’s treasure-hoard, if we remove even more words from the list?  Pack a sandwich, the road beckons!