More to come from Peake’s excellent 2012 book, “The Labyrinth of Time: The Illusion of Past, Present, and Future.” The title says it all, so glad to find another researcher who has traversed the Time Door. In his introduction, he alerted me to this bit of news:

I was astonished to discover that this word is the most-used noun in the English language. It is a small, four-letter word that contains within it so much mystery. Indeed, the very word itself cannot really be defined in any accurate or meaningful way.

I did some desktop digging and found this article from 2019:

For those who think the world is obsessed with "time," an Oxford dictionary added support to the theory Thursday in announcing that the word is the most often used noun in the English language.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-time-is-most-often-used-noun/

Right on Time.