Hello James,
> I have been looking for this list of the "100 most
> common words in the Pali Canon" .
> is there such a list?
Besides already mentioned link, you can find extended lists in the thread
http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=19624
Besides, I have a list of top 50000 Pali words with numbers of their
occurences in Digha, Majjhima, Samyutta, Anguttara, Khuddaka Nikayas and
Vinaya, and overall number. I can put it on website if necessary.
This approach can be an instrument of determining the relative age of
Pali texts.
Regards,
Dmytro