Monday, 17 September 2007

Wordcount

This is a bit of fun, but such a nice coincidence it's worth recording.

Wordcount is a site that tracks the use of words in the English language, showing their frequency of use as a sort of visual barometer. A lot of the point of the site is the creation of serendipitous links between words in the list. Sometimes the effect is funny, sometimes it's rather inspiring: looking for "library" I found it nestling in the company of "lived," "fit," "progress" and "believed." If you can judge a word by the company it keeps then library's doing all right.

screen grab of the Wordcount screen showing where library is in the list

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