Oh, right. But that means Trebek might be wrong?

8. One of the 20 most commonly used words in the English language (data comes from a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources)

49/60 correct answers

the [8]
SteelersDMW
sixfour
Eliminator
dawade
another_rack
ZJ123
chuckleslovakian
PyramidScheme

I [6]
JaredL
Steroid Boy
FCBLComish
HSRMate1104
ecdrva
xoom

a [4]
amplify
J_V
ZeTurd
m1ke

it [4]
WFDeac
Wyman
grando
Tom1975

is [4]
customer_nr1
Snupoker
gusmahler
legend42

in [4]
clowntable
Hendrix
Fleebrog
13ball

that [4]
manupod
kokiri
cardsman
Nicholasp27

and [3]
The_Hitch
yeotaJMU
Tokyo!!

you [3]
Zimmer4141
aaronk56
mute

to [3]
alice16
RoundTower
True North

on [2]
EMD710N
wager32

for [1]
Dudd

he [1]
Jamee999

of [1]
jjp

with [1]
TehVader

Hope not

Also who kidnapped the real nich?

Incorrects

also
am
an
are
like
no
she
this
time
tomorrow
yes

wtf how is 'this' not one of them.

OK, now I've probably got 5 clunkers in a row.

I'm pretty sure 'like' is top 20 in spoken word, but nobody uses it in formal writing which screwed me.

he correct, she not, ololzzolozlzol its cuz MEN invented english obv

lol who said tommorow?

I honestly coudn't think of a good obvious answer besides Barker and Sajak, and so went with Dawson. Would have loved to have put Gene Rayburn, but figured Match Game '74 and '75 might have been too early, and that guy was fricking nuts anyway (in a fabulous way)...

Was Philbin ever daytime? And if Meredith Viera ever won it, and gets a good score, I'll puke on myself...

i kinda wanna bone merdith vierra

Halftime scores

legend42 28
ZeTurd 29
cardsman 33
JaredL 38
manupod 38

WFDeac 38
True North 41
13ball 45
jjp 49
Zimmer4141 49

ecdrva 50
aaronk56 53
EMD710N 54
TehVader 54
kokiri 58

wager32 58
wdcbooks 59
clowntable 60
Jamee999 61
amplify 63

Eliminator 63
gusmahler 63
HSRMate1104 63
Dudd 64
vixticator 64

DukeSucks 65
FCBLComish 66
RoundTower 67
another_rack 68
customer_nr1 68

bairdo1884 69
SteelersDMW 69
chymechowder 70
Tokyo!! 70
Hendrix 71

Snupoker 71
xoom 71
sopoRific 72
Fleebrog 74
Nicholasp27 74

yeotaJMU 76
ZJ123 76
PyramidScheme 77
bobman0330 78
alice16 79

J_V 80
SarcasticRat 80
Wyman 81
Steroid Boy 82
sixfour 83

mute 84
willie24 85
m1ke 88
The_Hitch 88
grando 89

dawade 93
Rake16 93
chuckleslovakian 95
DustinG 95
Tom1975 98

here is something to play around with during the break

Any chance on getting the unanswered corrects on the 20 words, AJ? just out of curiosity...

halftime game, first person to name in thread the #1 answer to question 9 (rhymes with rhyme) will get a tiebreaking half a point

only 1 word per post please

f-ing more popular then f..., curious

time

lime

legend, check the link i posted, but i think missed were: as, at, be, by, was

thyme

i went thyme

time

chyme

if we could have gone ine then I would have gone stein