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#130869 07/29/04 08:44 PM
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This is a listing of the most-used words in the English language, ranked in order. It has over 86000 words on it. You can plug in a word and it tells you the rank or you can plug in a rank and it tells you the word. One NEAT site!

http://www.wordcount.org/main.php



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#130870 07/30/04 10:59 AM
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All I get is a blank white page, in either Opera or Exploder.


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It works fine on my machine. Perhaps there is some degree of operator error.

It includes naughty words. Who wudda thunk that the naughtiest one would come right after "charming" and next before "workshop"?


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operator error

I wonder if it needs Flash/Shockwave, something we *still haven't installed on our machine?


#130873 07/30/04 12:51 PM
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worked fine for me in OSX with Safari. yeah, you need Flash. but for Flash sites, this one is pretty small, which is nice.

and it is a lot of fun!



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#130874 07/30/04 01:57 PM
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Also seems to include misspellings: suprise is #86033. And who woulda thought Forgan (an Oklahoma town, pop. 489), at 86027, would outrank both downloading (86031) and conquistador (86800). Especially downloading.


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Yeah, it's quite time consuming to have to load a flash *document for each single incremental change (increase or decrease) across the list.

However, at #66 I did find the first word of personal interest.


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Thanks for both the commentary and the technical info, y'all.


#130877 07/30/04 05:01 PM
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I got to thinking about this website, and it occurred to me to be an excellent method for communicating in code, particularly if one were to scramble the word order and agree with the recipient on the new order.

And you would have to scramble it somehow, since a dead giveaway would be to have most of the coded text coming from the first hundred or first thousand five-digit numbers.

This might be something NSA should take a look at!



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The 'naughtiest' word I can think of comes between nudged and dogmatic.


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