Same for me.
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“General”. I post a lot in “General”.
…however, I do also say “generally” a lot.
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That’s what I thought, but it’s still not a word… 
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I don’t know… it’s very strange.
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Supposedly, my most-used words are:
- natural (295x)
- talking (271x)
- one (163x)
- observer (150x)
and - generally (146x)
Of course, after reading @AdamWargon’s analysis, I’m kind of skeptical of the results. The list is reasonably credible, and if I hadn’t previously read the post, I might have just accepted it as given.
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My #5 was “mistletoe”. I need to push that higher.
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You win the Sensible Answer prize.
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Was it listed by Discourse Rewind as ve or as ‘ve?
Just ve.
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My guess, then, is that Discourse simply used spaces and punctuation within posts to split it into words, then counted the occurrences of each of those words without regard to whether or not it was a valid word. Then they removed certain common words from the count, such as the, in, to, a, and the like. Accordingly, a contraction such as they’ve would get split into into they and ve, and then each of those would get counted as a word.
But if you would like to get a reliable answer directly from the source, you could ask the question on Discourse Meta.
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Using the theory that the words are caused by categories and not word usage itself, many of us might get “forum“ and “feedback“ next year.
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Thank you! I guess I will just have to write things in full instead of shortening them! 
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As of now, mine are:
- natural 91
- forums 90
- badges 52
- inaturalist 50
- would 45
Of course this post would be expected to increase each of their counts by one, except for would, which with this sentence included would now increase by four.
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Observations - 75
Listed - 66
Search - 65
Project - 62
iNaturalist - 55
I mostly talk about search filters, lists, and projects I guess
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About 3 days ago, I wrote:
Since I wrote this, I questioned myself. Is it REALLY updating in real time? I have been obsessively checking my hours read, to see if I could catch it going from 175 to 176 (it didn’t go up yet).
But I just noticed that my most-used word now (3 days later) is “nature”, being used 581x. So it IS updating in real time, like I thought.
For anyone who is wondering WHY the word changed, read the whole thread.
How does that work? when I go to that link I get “Oops! that page doesn’t exist or is private” with no opportunity to replace the user name with my own. When I use the search box that pops up and search “disable rewind” it doesn’t find anything. I’ve copy-and-pasted the link into my browser, and changed the username there, with the same results.
My little circles don’t jiggle, and I don’t want them to start - I just want them to disappear, without drawing me in!
Replace {username} with your own username. Be sure to exclude the brackets from the address.
EDIT:
Rather than click on the link above, copy it, paste it, then edit it to substitute your username in place of {username}. That includes removing the brackets. If you click it as is you’ll get the Oops! page.
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Thanks.
When I copied and pasted it, the bracketed username became %7Busername%7D (I don’t know why)
I had previously just replaced “username” with mine, which didn’t work, but when I replaced that whole string of characters with just my username, it worked. Success!
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%7B and %7D denote hexadecimal codes for { and }, respectively, so deleting them from the address was the correct thing to do.
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