Per Wikipedia: "Zipf's law states that given some corpus of natural language utterances, the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. Thus the most frequent word will occur approximately twice as often as the second most frequent word, which occurs twice as often as the fourth most frequent word, etc."
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rbread commented on the word false teeth
The man who hurled his false teeth at his wife is in Conan Doyle's A Case of Identity. Your citation is inaccurate, and the link is dead.
April 20, 2013
rbread commented on the word fornever
http://throughthesandglass.typepad.com/through_the_sandglass/poetry/
August 4, 2009
rbread commented on the word outswash
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August 4, 2009
rbread commented on the word double-outswash
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August 4, 2009
rbread commented on the word double-clutch
for a use involving the ornithological meaning of "clutch" see http://throughthesandglass.typepad.com/through_the_sandglass/poetry/
August 4, 2009
rbread commented on the word littorally
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August 4, 2009
rbread commented on the word megagoogolth
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August 4, 2009
rbread commented on the word forelost
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August 4, 2009
rbread commented on the word "zipf's law"
Per Wikipedia: "Zipf's law states that given some corpus of natural language utterances, the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. Thus the most frequent word will occur approximately twice as often as the second most frequent word, which occurs twice as often as the fourth most frequent word, etc."
So it governs your bubbles.
June 7, 2009