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very. Very, which ultimately derives from the stem of the Latin verus, “true,” is not one of the 10 most frequently used English words (these are I, the, and, to, of, in, we, for, you, and a, in that order). But very, first recorded 10 centuries ago, bears the distinction of being the only foreign (not Anglo- Saxon) word, as well as the only word of more than one sylla- ble, to have any rank at all in the “highest-frequency” category of words used, ranking within the top-50 according to one expert. |