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Saturday, February 09, 2008

Who Ordered a Word Conspiracy?

Ah, the British do love their language. So much so that WordCount.org measures the 86,000 English words most often used. As if that's not enough, then they keep track of the rankings of words asked about. For example, I queried the status of "silly". It just seemed so appropriate. At that moment, "silly" ranked 452, right before "today", "aardvark" and "religion". Other people have noticed interesting word sequences in the QueryCount. So many, that in the interest of conspiracy theorists everywhere, see WordCount Conspiracy. How about this one:
1443-1445 conservative reduce vote

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