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Tracking The (English) Words We Use
Zugok writes "Wordcount.org has an interactive presentation of the 86,800 most frequently used English words. In addition they have Query Count which is a dynamic database of what are the most queried words on Wword Count. Then there is the conspiracy corner where certain words seems to end up in some sort of eerie order. Cowboy comes 14834 and Neal comes 18928. Bebop comes 70673."
You're grossly over-estimating the general public. ;)
Fuck = 5598
Cunt = 18636
HTH.
but Windows ranks at a disturbing 1169. ;-)
Hmm. Thing is, there's pretty few words likely to appear high on the search list that I don't use verbally every day anyway.
Unless lots of people are searching for 'theocratic'. I don't use that one much.
~Cederic
"WordCount was designed with a minimalist aesthetic, to let the information speak for itself."
Which explains their logical use of Flash.
1) que
2) centre
3) colour
4) dialogue
5) program
6) pyjamas
Why yes, I am american
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
"Grok is not currently in the archive"
Funny that you mention this, because they'll definitely be adding the verb "slashdotted" after today.
Hoist Number One and Number Six.
Bite: 5922
My: 69
Shiny: 8590
Daffodil: 27591
Ass: 15036
I am actually quite disappointed that this wasn't from the bite-my-shiny-daffodil-ass dept. Tsk, tsk. Hemos.
I love money.
Words 29350-29352.
Support the First Amendment. Read at -1
1941-1945:
faith establish facts requires membership
Tom Cruise hacked their website!
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
Book comes in at 357, Television comes in at 1022 and TV comes in at 1577.
Ah, now I know what's wrong with it... It's "Artistic" so it doesn't have to mean anything. I mean, nobody would find it useful if the number of occurrences of a word was given.
Here's the bit that would make you choke on your cornflakes... Tell me, what was the award trophy? A chocolate tea pot?
Where's the Kaboom?
There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom.
.. 'Microsoft' is at a disturbing 4304 which puts this word ahead of 'Fuck' at 5589!
/. readers as a basis for working out their word collection.
This means that either:
1) That people at large think more about Microsoft than copulating. (Unlikely)
2) They used a bunch of
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
It's ART goddamit. It's not meant to be FUNCTIONAL :-)
"I loved Gigli"
I suspect that yours is the first use of this phrase, ever.
Apparently, the 'word' NaN is used a lot! :-)
NaNNaNNaNNaNNaN
Slashdotted?
Sig Nature
What a craptacular idea!