Website of the Day: Monday August 16th
>> Wordcount
When there’s a shortage of real news the papers like to fall back on a list or a chart (The top 17 movie car chases, 12 politicians you don’t want to get stuck in a lift with and so on). Wordcount is the mother of all charts. It catalogues the top 86,800 words in the English language (in order of how frequently they are used) and presents them in an animated scrolling timeline starting with The (#1) and going all the way to Conquistador (86,800). You can search the chart by word or by ranking, hence we learn that the 48915th most used English word is Muppet!
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