In the midst of some work-related research on blogs, I ran across this interesting factoid, courtesy of the Australian organization Caslon Analytics:
Researchers for the Oxford English Dictionary claimed in 2007 that “the 15 most frequently used words in the blogosphere” (presumably the Anglo part of the blogosphere) are –
- blogger
- blog
- stupid
- me
- myself
- my
- oh
- yeah
- ok
- post
- stuff
- lovely
- update
- nice
- [four letter word beginning with s]
I love my job.
Now you’ve given those words an extra vote, each. Isn’t that like, totally, like, unfair, like? That is like the anti-Robinhood. (Reminds me: like, where is “like” on that list, like?)
“Shit” deserves more hits; the Germanic word with the most bang, letter-for-letter.