Archive for Frequency
The old side-eye
Only peripherally about words, or for that matter stuff.
Statistical wording analysis of political speeches
There's been some interesting work lately in analyzing documents and speeches in terms of statistics and word clouds and such. The most recent piece I've come across in this area...
Obscene intensifiers (probably NSFW)
Today's xkcd comic strip shows a graph of frequency of usage, for a variety of adjectives, of the intensifiers “fucking” and “as shit.” It's a cute graph, and some of...
Cursebird: swearing on Twitter
Cursebird provides "a real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter." It even shows a seven-day overview bar graph of the relative frequency of various common swear words....