googlemetrics? I'm starting to wonder if the ratio of approx. ten is golden or something. ~ tsuwm
What good google luck, dear tsuwm! I stumbled upon a site that seems to answer your decimating question. Put forth in part below...
The Three Google Measures of Word Legitimacy
Whereas until google and other high powered computer search engines came to be, people who spoke the english language were at the mercy of a gaggle of conflicting dictionaries that were compiled by self-interest types who by academics or self-assumed erudition imposed legitimacy and meaning upon the confused, but non-the-less still speaking public. The egalitarian rules outlined here address this matter.
I. Any register of 1,000 referents on Google confers legitimacy on that word regardless of circumstance.
II. A word that registers 10% (ten percent) of a prime (1,000 hits)
word with the same meaning becomes that word, albeit
an alternate spelling.
III. Meanings are to be discerned by the content of the
text with a minimum number of 10 (ten) needed for entry as an alternate meaning. All entries (referents) are to be considered equal in value, for example, a usage by the New York Times is equally regarded with that, let's say, of an unsung and unpublished poet in New Jersey.
