Art > Curiosities and Investigations

I am a fan of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels, which are famously rich in nautical terms evoking life in the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. I used the linguistic program WordSmith Tools to compile a word frequency list from the text of the novel Master and Commander. I then wrote out the list in order from "the" to "xebecs," cataloguing all 4293 words that were used at least three times in the course of the novel.