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Several Years Ago The New York Telephone Company ...
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009 (message contributor)
Several years ago the New York Telephone Company made a detailed study of telephone conversations to find out which word is the most frequently used.
Can you guess which word that was?
It was a personal pronoun "I." "I." "I."
I was used 3900 times in 500 telephone conversations.
(From a sermon by Jeff Strite, "i-Surrender")
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