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"Pick a number from 1 to 100" I wonder how many of that will not be 42 :D
Plenty of 69s as well. Many of us are still 12 year olds at heart.
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Some of them were definitely highly specific jargon to medical fields and the like. I'm betting fewer of them are made up than you think.
Mmmm... no. * Phoropter * Tribution * Slickle * Cadine * Fination * Apricity * Revergent * Unitory * Trephony These are not words. They are not highly specific jargon either. They are just made up nonsense.
Seems you're right about the rest.
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It was funny to see the slang word "fleek" in there, very unexpected.
I put yes for this because I've heard the funny sounding slang phrase 'on fleek' (similar to on point) before, but I'm not sure if it actually is an OED word.
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I did something that caused Firefox to restart and lose _all_ of my active tabs. (Got them back via sessionstore.bak, thank goodness.)
"How many tabs do you keep open on your browser" would be an interesting question, to me, to see the results on. I'm often mystified by the stories of people who keep 50+ tabs open. I've never understood why, but I guess now that I'm considering it, I'm guessing such people must base their workflows around tabs.
If you like this sort of thing, you may also enjoy: 1) My website Correlated.org ( http://www.correlated.org ), which has been generating weird correlations based on users' survey responses for more than four years. 2) Spurious Correlations ( http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations ) by Tyler Vigen, which also offers wacky correlations, but based on publicly available datasets rather than survey responses. 3)…
Can anyone explain how Google Correlate works? I understand how a brute-forced approach might work, but is there any way of optimizing this?
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Some of them were definitely highly specific jargon to medical fields and the like. I'm betting fewer of them are made up than you think.
Mmmm... no. * Phoropter * Tribution * Slickle * Cadine * Fination * Apricity * Revergent * Unitory * Trephony These are not words. They are not highly specific jargon either. They are just made up nonsense.
=== SPOILER ALERT! === The most interesting question, to me, is the one about which words you know the meaning of. About half of them aren't real words. I assume this question is used partly as a gauge of vocabulary (how many of the real words do you recognize) and partly of honesty (how many of the fake words do you claim to recognize).
balletomane? zimocca? scacchite?
http://spellingbee.com/public/results/2015/round_results/spe...
=== SPOILER ALERT! === The most interesting question, to me, is the one about which words you know the meaning of. About half of them aren't real words. I assume this question is used partly as a gauge of vocabulary (how many of the real words do you recognize) and partly of honesty (how many of the fake words do you claim to recognize).
I can't remember what I clicked.
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It's always the number everyone thinks no one else will choose.
Hypothesis: People think even numbers aren't as "random" and odd numbers are more "random". That leaves us with 1,3,5,7,9. 1 and 5 both divide 10 and don't seem so "random" to us, I guess. That leaves us with 3, 7, and 9. 33, 77, 99, i.e. numbers with repeated digits don't seem so "random". That leaves us with 37, 39, 79. And 9 maybe (not sure if all people subconsciously think this way) isn't that "random" because i…
Second was 51. Clearly the primest looking of the non-primes under 100?
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Some of them were definitely highly specific jargon to medical fields and the like. I'm betting fewer of them are made up than you think.
Mmmm... no. * Phoropter * Tribution * Slickle * Cadine * Fination * Apricity * Revergent * Unitory * Trephony These are not words. They are not highly specific jargon either. They are just made up nonsense.
Slickle is clearly onomatopoeia for something I probably don't want to know what.
Cadine is a name (which is certainly a type of word): http://www.babycenter.com/baby-names-cadine-891835.htm
Tribution and Revergent are likely plays on con- prefix removal and substitution (contribution, convergent). If they are not part of some jargon, they will be. Similarly, the morphological construction for Unitory (-tory is the latin agency prefix) I can certainly believe it to have jargon usage.
Trephony could be a form of this noun for different grammatical situations: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trephone That would suggest to me that it may be a biosciences jargon term already.