>
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.
>
One of the 17-year cicada swarms hatched this year in the Eastern US, rather
spectacularly. They were accompanied by a swarm of news articles only
slightly less noisy.
--
Elyse Grasso
The World of Cherani Station
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Cherani Tradespeech
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