most looked-up words
| From: | And Rosta <a.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 0:23 |
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/04words.htm
lists the top 10 words most looked up in the online dictionary
(excluding hard-to-spell words like _accommodate_ and words
whose tabooness imparts a frisson to their looking up).
1. blog
2. incumbent
3. electoral
4. insurgent
5. hurricane
6. cicada
7. peloton : noun (1951) : the main body of riders in a bicycle race
8. partisan
9. sovereignty
10. defenestration
For most of the entries it's easy to see why they're on the list,
but _cicada_, _peloton_ (a word wholly new to me) and
_defenestration_ perplex me. Perhaps in my habitual failure to
heed the News, I have missed major stories on these topics?
At any rate, I will wager that no conlang has words for all 10.
My conlang has no word for any of the 10. But one supersized
all-American kudo to the conlang with the words for the most
of the 10...
--And.
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