** ly_words.txt ** This file contains documentation and data cited in "Investigating Curatorial Voice with Corpus Linguistic Techniques" (Salway and Baker, submitted to Museum & Society). The list below was generated by filtering frequencyList.txt to include only those words ending in 'ly' using the Linux command: grep 'ly\s' frequencyList.txt. The first column is the word's rank in the original frequency list and the second column is its frequency. ------------------------------------------ 209 586 elderly 275 434 only 289 408 probably 333 365 partly 374 323 fashionably 439 276 respectively 496 249 ugly 563 217 slightly 567 215 evidently 609 198 grotesquely 669 181 melancholy 689 177 fly 710 173 heavily 738 167 plainly 784 154 angrily 793 152 apparently 929 130 violently 969 123 fiercely 1077 110 family 1089 109 immediately 1120 106 stiffly 1127 105 closely 1168 101 burly 1234 96 intently 1323 88 eagerly 1375 85 delightedly 1386 84 July 1427 82 enormously 1622 70 freely 1629 70 sly 1681 67 horizontally 1683 67 neatly 1686 67 similarly 1748 64 arrogantly 1752 64 comely 1820 62 scarcely 1821 62 slyly 1834 61 completely 1876 59 Immediately 1889 59 elaborately 1892 59 menacingly 1930 58 wildly 1945 57 gloomily 2011 54 Only 2032 54 scaly 2060 53 furtively 2069 53 savagely 2074 53 tipsily 2076 53 vertically 2087 52 broadly 2091 52 grossly 2124 51 furiously 2133 51 poorly 2148 50 complacently 2154 50 obsequiously 2278 46 equally 2319 45 diagonally 2391 43 faintly 2474 41 frantically 2508 40 aggressively 2516 40 derisively 2517 40 despairingly 2542 40 sternly 2560 39 contemptuously 2576 39 nearly 2580 39 presumably 2583 39 realistically 2664 37 dejectedly 2678 37 oddly 2682 37 roughly 2713 36 curiously 2722 36 gleefully 2763 35 Probably 2862 34 tightly 2864 34 triumphantly 2905 33 fixedly 2964 32 deprecatingly 3038 31 impassively 3055 31 seemingly 3094 30 apprehensively 3095 30 awkwardly 3140 30 smartly 3181 29 elegantly 3238 28 Folly 3310 28 vigorously 3343 27 butterfly 3358 27 especially 3384 27 ruffianly 3389 27 sourly 3432 26 amorously 3433 26 anxiously 3445 26 directly 3446 26 disconsolately 3456 26 immensely 3463 26 painfully 3469 26 precariously 3485 26 symmetrically 3546 25 ferociously 3549 25 fully 3560 25 meditatively 3573 25 sanctimoniously 3638 24 extravagantly 3643 24 greedily 3690 24 ungainly 3712 23 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