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jor_mama Donating Member (209 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:18 AM
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"america ensure oil opportunity"
This website www.wordcount.org is kind of neat, for those interested in lexicology. They have over 80,000 words ordered by their frequency of use (an explanation is available at the website).

Here's the interesting thing I found and verified when reading the "about" page: words 992-995 are "america ensure oil opportunity."

Just a coincidence, naturally, but an interesting one.
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LearnedHand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:26 AM
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1. I doubt it
that it's a coincidence, that is. How do they count the words?
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jor_mama Donating Member (209 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:30 AM
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2. From the "about" page
<snip>
WordCount data currently comes from the British National Corpus®, a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent an accurate cross-section of current English usage. WordCount includes all words that occur at least twice in the BNC®. In the future, WordCount will be modified to track word usage within any desired text, website, and eventually the entire Internet.
<snip>

This page also explains that God and war are relatively close (war is 304, God is 376).
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