In 1935, Harvard linguist George Zipf I wanted out that the frequency of the Kth most frequent word in a language is roughly proportional to 1/K. This implies that the second most frequent word in a language has a frequency of one half that of the most frequent word, the third most frequent word has a frequency of one third that of the most frequent word, and so on. A distribution that follows this rule is said to obay Zipf's law.


Zipf's lawhas been observed not only in word distributions, but in other phenomenona as well, such as populations in a city.


The frequency of the third most frequent word in the Brown corpus is ___?___ that of the most frequent word.


A. 41%

B. 34%

C. 33%

D. 50%