Fig. 3.

Power law frequencies for number words (“one,” “two,” “three,” etc.) in English (a), Russian (b), and Italian (c), using data from Google (Lin et al., 2012). Note that here the x-axis is ordered by cardinality, not frequency rank, although these two coincide. Additionally, decades (“ten,” “twenty,” “thirty,” etc.) were removed from this analysis due to unusually high frequency from their approximate usage. Here and in all plots, the red line is the fit of Eq. 2, and the gray line is a LOESS