of small words

the, of, and, to, a, in, that, is, I, it.--Those ten little words account for 25% of all speech.
..There are fifty words, which make up 60% of everything we say– and only two of these have more than one syllable. Listed below are the Top 50 as compiled by the BNC...
.. Building a Word Frequency List .. blog.outer-court.com/archive/2003_11_02 to z0604 idiom ... just posted

speech is pointing...
the, a - articles
of, to, in - prepositions
and, (that) - conjunctions tristan and isold, you want the and.
is - verb there is an is.
I, it, (that) - pronouns (relative) that that is is that that is not - hey no negation in top 10?

in list of 50 - not is #21 and n't is #34 and I guess, along with 's counts as having more than one syllable?

via rw link to Most Popular Words 2006 (which links to 2003 list and to above post about building word frequency list) - top 30:
a, the, to, in, of, and, for, by, home, all, this, is, about, site, with, at, more, your, us, you, contact, web, are, from, information, it, copyright, an, privacy, that.

and huh: in speech, 'that' is more common than 'this' but not on web. (on 2003 list as well, more webpages found to contain (one or more instances of) 'this' than contain 'that'.)
so...? on www, our subject is more usually at hand? what we are talking about is more often here than there.
notevenwithstanding the 'that that' possibility that that has over this, which is not a conjunction as well as pronoun.
Definition of that - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
THAT - 5 entries: pronoun, conjunction, pronoun (?), adjective, adverb
Definition of this - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
THIS - 3 entires: pronoun, adjective, adverb

oh and what of these words that seem obviously specific to the medium of the web? home, site, contact, web, information, copyright, privacy...
anything to observe? so if we were looking at books, we'd probably find a lot of 'chapter'. so anything?