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AppleScript is not the right tool for this job, so while the following solution works, it is sloooow.<\/p>\n

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# Helper handler: Given a search word, returns the number of times the word \n# already occurs in the specified list (as the first sub-item of each list item).\non countOccurrences(searchWrd, lst)\n  local counter\n  set counter to 0\n  repeat with wordNumPair in lst\n    if item 1 of wordNumPair is searchWrd then\n      set counter to counter + 1\n    end if\n  end repeat\n  return counter\nend countOccurrences\n\n# Define the input list.\nset inList to {\"It\", \"was\", \"the\", \"best\", \"of\", \"times\", \"it\", \"was\", \"the\", \"worst\", \"of\", \"times\", \"it\", \"was\", \"the\", \"age\", \"of\", \"wisdom\", \"it\", \"was\", \"the\", \"age\", \"of\", \"foolishness\", \"it\", \"was\", \"the\", \"epoch\", \"of\", \"belief\"}\n\n# Initialize the output list.\nset outList to {}\n\n# Loop over the input list and build the output list incrementally.\nrepeat with wrd in inList\n  # Note that `contents of` returns the string content of the list item\n  # (dereferences the object specifier that `repeat with` returns).\n  set outList to outList & {{contents of wrd, 1 + (my countOccurrences(contents of wrd, outList))}}\nend repeat\n\n# outList now contains the desired result.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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