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US High School Names Most Common Words

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Name the words appearing at least 25 times in the names of 18K+ US high schools. For purposes of this quiz, schools were all those in the 50 states and DC which had grade 12 as the highest grade and were classified as public. # of occurrences as well as first letter and total letters shown. ‘*’ denotes words typically referring to a person’s name. I left out single letters and numbers (single letters were typically middle initials).

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dpm

11 years ago

I’m guessing your source didn’t include parochial and other private schools, judging from the lack of “Catholic”? Might want to mention that.

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darin

11 years ago

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ah yes it was public schools only…i’ll add in description.

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