The Conquistador

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

According to Wordcount, the title of this post uses our language’s most-used and least-used words.  It’s no surprise that ‘the’ is the most popular word (it appears in this post 11 times), but it’s surprising that ‘conquistador’ is the least popular.

I certainly feel that I use the word ‘conquistador’ more often than some of what the database considers more popular words like ‘vodapage’, ‘bhimji’, and ‘femtosecond’.

Sometimes the sequence of words creates an interesting effect, like this sentence I found: “Bush admits (specifically agents’) smell.”

So where do I fit in?  ‘John’ is the 266th most-used word in the English language.  Not bad considering the archive consists of 86,800 words.

I’m more popular than McDonald’s (39,507), Microsoft (4,304), and God (376).

Hell, I’m even more popular than sex! (1,236)


Comments

7-27-04 · 6:20 pm

Joe says:

Only 2,333 for me? I thought I was way more popular than that!

7-28-04 · 10:01 am

Zombie Claire says:

You so common yo mamma bought you at honest ed’s!!!

7-28-04 · 1:52 pm

erinn says:

Erinn doesn’t even make the cut… I guess that just shows how unique I am!

7-28-04 · 1:59 pm

Robot Johnny says:

Sure, if by ‘unique’, you mean ‘unpopular’!

7-28-04 · 2:16 pm

erinn says:

Well I’d rather be ‘unique’ than popular because my name is also another conotation for the word “toilet”. smile smile

“Excuse me, but I need to go to the JOHN”

or “JOHNny-on-the Spot”

In fact by looking up the actual definition for the word JOHN I am reminded of another usage…

Main Entry: john
Pronunciation: ‘jän
Function: noun
Etymology: from the name John
1 : TOILET
2 : a prostitute’s client

I believe the teasing will end now? hmmm? Say it with me “Erinn is a UNIQUE and BEAUTIFUL name” smile

7-28-04 · 2:37 pm

Robot Johnny says:

Erinn is the kindest, bravest, warmest,
most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.

7-29-04 · 10:18 am

SPU says:

My first name ranks 619th on the list, just after the word “na”.  This, of course, begs the following question: What the heck is “na”, and how did it become more important and cooler than me?

SPU, my mom says I’m cool

7-30-04 · 10:52 am

Raquel says:

“conquistador” means conqueror (in portuguese) it´s funny see this word in this way!

sorry for my broken english

raquel