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“All you need is #384″

November 14th, 2004 · No Comments

WordCount* is an
online toy based on word popularity. (It ranks common English words
from #1 –“the”– to #86,800–“conquistador”.) You can use it to:

* Embellish short quotes or poems by giving each word its own popularity number:

“All (#41) you (#14) need (#158) is (#9) love (#384).”
The (#1) Beatles (#12851)

* Play silly word-race games: “love” is only #384–slightly less
popular than “economic”, which is #383.  The word “Beatles”
(#12851) is more popular
than “Beatrice” (#12867)–I bet that would annoy the hell out of Dante
(#23652).

* Play the vanity word-race game–you know you want to. I confess I did, says Betsy (#19932) Devine (#32630).


* Thanks to Jonathan J. Harris for inventing WordCount!


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