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Re: most looked-up words

From:Elyse M. Grasso <emgrasso@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 14:55
On Monday 06 December 2004 07:22 pm, And Rosta wrote:
> 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 www.data-raptors.com/cherani/index.html Cherani Tradespeech www.data-raptors.com/cherani/tradespeech.html