Table 20.1 Linkers with a frequency of
4 in the Cringe Text Corpus
| N | Word | Freq. | % | Sentence initial | Texts (n = 143) |
| 1 | and | 366 | 3.37 | 1 | 136 |
| 2 | so | 73 | 0.67 | 6 | 63 |
| 3 | but | 53 | 0.49 | 4 | 45 |
| 4 | then | 26 | 0.25 | 15 | 25 |
| 5 | finally | 10 | 0.09 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | later | 6 | 0.06 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | suddenly | 6 | 0.06 | 1 | 6 |
| 8 | though | 4 | 0.04 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | too | 4 | 0.04 | 0 | 4 |