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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), między is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 99 times in scientific texts, 101 times in news, 48 times in essays, 0 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 191 times, making it the 143rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “między”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “między”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 245
Further reading
między in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “miedzy, między, midzy, midz, mizdzy”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Ewa Rodek (12.01.2022) “MIĘDZY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]