Reading and Collocation
Channel: Mark Brierley
Date: 2020-10-03

You can only read quickly if you can recognise groups of letters and words.
You can only recognise groups of letters and words by seeing them many times.
You can only see groups of words many times if you read a lot.
You can only read a lot if you read quickly!
How do we get out of this paradox? How do we get into reading?

Correction: if "of the" were a word, it would not be in the top 10, but it would be around number 30.

There's a reference to Thornbury, Scott 'The Lexical Approach: a journey without maps?' MET Vol7 No4 Oct 1998.