Thursday, 9 August 2007

Word Count

Ever wondered what words we use most??
Did you know that Love comes higher than Hate, that You comes higher than Me?
This site appealed to me with its simple typeographic layout and ease of use. The site, perhaps at first seems a little pointless, but i find it quirky and actually quite interesting. It also could be interesting to designers, authors and or anyone creating work that is to be exposed to the general public. Again, a site that uses an advanced graphic layout to deliver new information in an original yet simple form.








This site was developed using data from the British National Corpus, "a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources. Word Count presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more uncommon it is."

http://www.wordcount.org/

(of course I couldn't help but look up a few swear words, childish I know.)

1 comment:

Holly Mee said...

a very interesting site indeed never seen anything like it. But all the same the first few you kinda guess, i have to say after you mentioning the swear words tried a few of those out too, funny stuff.