“THE” crushes field in race to be number one word in the English Language
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There is a web site for everything. What you love, what you hate and what you don’t care about. A site called wordcount.org counts word usage in the English language wherever she is spoken. The site uses data compiled by the British National Corpus, who for some strange reason, have collected a 100 million word data base of samples of written and spoken language from a variety of sources.
What wordcount.org has done is list the top 86,800 words used in the English speaking world and put them in order, from number 1, to number 86,800, and THE is number one word.
Immediately curious I wondered where the F-word ranked, it was surprisingly low coming in at 5,598, I was expected it to rank in the top 1,000. Sadly HATE ranked much higher at 3,107, but sadness ebbed when I saw LOVE was in at 384.
REPUBLICAN was 4,634 beating DEMOCRAT into 7,135, which tells you something about the so-called Liberal media. As if to prove a point, CONSERVATIVE 1,443, pushed LIBERAL into 1,839, but LIBERTARIAN was slumping at 23,236. I had to know what word was ranked dead last, in position number 86,800, CONQUISTADOR took that dubious honor. The list was Copyright 2003, so the word BLOG wasn’t even ranked.
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Just thinking … what kind of a world would we live in if the most used word was Love? It’s a thought… and afterall, y’all know I’m one of those hopey changey kinda gals’.
Lovey, dovey is a much nicer approach to life than hatey, feary.
You do know something important had to leak out my left ear to make room for the preeminence of THE, right? 🙂
Wait a minute, I can’t remember whether I like Oreos or Chips Ahoy!!! Oh, well, I’ll just have to try both to regain that tidbit of useful information…
OK! I used it in a comment on the Ed Schultz post so the ranking is now:
5,594
LOL Oso as to The Mike.
Holte: I love this trivial stuff!
Gonna start calling you The Mike from now on man,
The Oso
Hmmmmm,
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Count it.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious if that is the correct spelling, is not ranked in wordcount. I did plug it in to check.
‘A site called wordcount.org counts word usage in the English language wherever she is spoken’
I wonder how many counts of ‘anally retentive’ they’ve admitted to?..;-)
One really does have to wonder what they where thinking when they decided to embark on this project, and I have to wonder what I was thinking when I browsed the site.
I typed the word Conquistador a whole bunch of times to see if I could move the word up from the bottom position. The comment didn’t get published; maybe your spam protection gizmo thought I was a spammer.
Anyway, Conquistador to the tenth power.
Now, please check the rankings again 🙂
Conquistador is probably quite high if there is a Spanish edition of wordcount.org.
conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador.
OK, check the rankings again.
TOM – If the C word rises in the rankings, it will owe you big time.
conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador conquistador
OK, check the rankings again.
Well, that just pisses me off. I don’t know why but it does. I don’t like that particular word. See I didn’t even use it. But I did use “it” 3 times. Let’s hear for the it word. Oops!
I think IT was number 2.
LOL LOL! Fucking right!
New Rank: 5,595
You can thank bands like Whitesnake for the over use of the word “love” during the 80’s.
Fuck an A!
Don’t you mean THE Whitesnake.
Well fuck! Now it ranks at 5,597. It the only word that expresses anger, love, pain, frustration and of course at least one physical act.
It’s not easy being number 1. They put you up there, but then they want to drag you down. Hang in there THE.