There Can Be Only One

[cheerfulstoic]

Thanks to the endlessly entertaining brilliance of Ryan North, I recently learned about hapax legomena, words which occur only once in either the written record of a language, the works of an author, or in a single text (according to Wikipedia). At least at the single text level, they're not that uncommon. A quick perusal of my blog's word count

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[marstheinfomage]

gopher wood?
...
...
/me fights the woodchuck urge

also, how DO you get your blog's word count?

[cheerfulstoic]

It's one of the features of ljArchive. It also has a search feature and tools to find comment counts, post frequencies, and all sorts of psychological analysis based on word usage. The psychology stuff can be a bit silly, but it's entertaining.

[marstheinfomage]

*sigh* wish i hadn't run it. here i thought i was interesting to read ;)

some of my most popular words:
http
html
actually
random
curious
apparently
___ (i don't actually know what this is, but is #11 by frequency)

[cheerfulstoic]

My top ten:
today
food
actually
maybe
nice
Christmas
internet
French
chocolate
stuff
I cringe to think that I use "nice" and "actually" that often, since those are words my English teachers always said were overused. "Food" doesn't surprise me, but I had no idea I talked about Christmas and French that often.