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I love Found Poems. I love playing Hangman. I will do almost any silly thing to get close to a word that I like. I lose at Scrabble because I get lost in the aesthetics, instead of counting those damn points. I once made a right angle of "SEMEN" and "NUANCE," but I came in dead last.
If you can relate to my word fetish, you are going to LOSE IT when you discover: Wordcount.
Wordcount, is, in their words, "an artistic experiment in the way we use language... It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more uncommon it is."
The fun part is searching for words you like, and then seeing what words fall before and after them. For instance, if you look up "Susie," this is what the string looks like:
susie deftly dandy fundamentalists meek penultimate clowns
Susie is word #22609 and clowns is #22615. Is it not divine?
I liked what happened with my last name, too:
bright jesus rooms russian wild liverpool
That's word #1844 to #1849.
The possibilities are endless and surprising. They've got a devoted group of fans, but I'm sure they could use some more!
Look up your favorite word and sock it to me.
Cosmic coicidence!
Susie is deftly dandy (true...)
Fundamentalists are meek penultimate clowns (...also true...)
Posted by: Sex-Pos Fem | September 21, 2005 at 10:06 AM
I love it, and I haven't even tried it yet. How do you load a word?
Posted by: Sex-Pos Fem | September 21, 2005 at 10:19 AM
I launched QueryCount and this is what I got:
They didn't have Aprelle so I did Elle.
Elle gave communicate chemist cramp
7154-7158
(Yeah I guess I did give my old therapist a run for her money)
I did my sister Julie:
355-367
Julie Jane want martin angel last on gun never five ten bum
(wow she could just make wordcount her personal add)
Posted by: Sex-Fem Pos | September 21, 2005 at 10:33 AM
448-451 nicole. mouse. screw. bomb.
Perfect
....quite as ....destructive as .... and in between I ...
Posted by: nicole | September 21, 2005 at 11:57 AM
Oh, I can't get it to work for me. :(
Posted by: Sunnie | September 22, 2005 at 08:42 AM
I can't believe no one has posted this yet:
celebrate merger touching shallow charming fuck workshops (5593-5599)
My first name centered:
implementation chose headed keith protein unity burning (3305 to 3311)
..which seems right for some reason.
Posted by: Keith M Ellis | September 22, 2005 at 03:08 PM
This is so interesting!
Check out what happened when I put in "clitoris":
Clitoris Taunts Eccentrics Hosiery
Posted by: Gwen Masters | September 22, 2005 at 06:06 PM
Eddie headmaster Steven stares tear vice twist.
Fun!
Posted by: Steve | September 25, 2005 at 05:46 PM
Please allow below natural inside.
Posted by: deb | September 25, 2005 at 08:57 PM
panties lollipop!
Oh no. Susie, what have you done now? Someone will need to come and tell me to hush and come to bed. But until then
Panties lollipop cummings!
Posted by: deb | September 25, 2005 at 09:10 PM
Suz - do you see how the FBI is censoring (of all things!) SuicideGirls.com? The girls are being forced to remove some mild bondage sets from their (password-protected pay-) site. I hate to use the F-word, but if this isn't the "New Fascism..." AAaaarrrgh!
Posted by: Keith | September 26, 2005 at 09:20 AM
See, this is why I would never do the foreign exchange program. A recent headline:
"smuggled fag gypsy claude segregated" 18077-18081
Or hitchhike:
"repressed elf australians hitch sprayed" 14420-14424
Then again, there's always backpacking:
"updating hooker mastered thinner motorola styling whistling mahmoud" 13095-13102
Posted by: SexPosFemme | September 26, 2005 at 02:04 PM
This thing is too cool!
11833-11838: "katie shuddered blond subsistence mumbled baggage" (Kind of sad, but sexy.)
My husband's name ranked a lot higher than mine, probably because it's also a word. 789-802:
"mark st. nor gon normal couple reached peter
serious throughout quickly developed lower worth"
(Sort of sad, but hilarious!)
Posted by: Katie | September 29, 2005 at 12:25 PM
I really like that panties lollypop part. e.e. cummings perhaps?
Posted by: Susie Bright | September 29, 2005 at 12:58 PM
Courtesy of Eric Albert, here is a site where people send in their WordCount conspiracy theories! In other words, strings of words you think have super-duper secret meanings. It's lots of fun:
http://www.number27.org/projects/wordcount/conspiracy.html
Posted by: Susie Bright | November 19, 2005 at 05:11 AM