02/08/07
just a min -
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Words ending in min:
Admin
Bodmin
Moomin
Are there any more? That is a most feeble list. How many words are there in the English language? It's more than any other language, I know that. In fact I don't suppose there can be a definitive number, because even in the most comprehensive dictionary, they would miss out certain words that weren't deemed relevant or well-used enough, but were nevertheless English words that one might use in a list such as the above.
Ok, so let's say there are 300000 words (for ease of mathematics). That would mean, according to my list, that 1 in 100000 words ends in 'min'. And in fact Moomin and Bodmin are proper nouns, so wouldn't even be in a dictionary. Moomin might. In a dictionary of kitsch.
So, as you may be able to tell, I am depressed.
I just looked online and the approximate number of dictionaried words in English is currently around 450,000. So not a bad guess. But in fact there are more like 1 million. I don't think "dictionaried" made it in there for a start.
But French has less than 100,000.
Haha, what idiots.
11pm on Thursday. I am exhausted. I spent my entire day photocopying. Not out of a twisted love of photocopying, you understand, but because this was what was required of me in my current employment. By the end of the day I had a decidedly crazed look in my eye, and my brain almost certainly resembled a small piece of silly putty. I used to like silly putty. It came in that nice brightly coloured egg.
So squashy.
I wish I had silly putty now. So bright and squashy.
When I was a child, each week I used to buy 100 red strawberry laces with my £1 pocket money, tie them all together into one massive long strawberry lace, arrange it around my room and then sit on my bed and eat it all.
How long would 100 strawberry laces be? Each must have been about 15cm - so 1500cm in total, which is 15 metres. Multiply by 52 is 780 metres of strawberry lace each year. I only did it for a couple of years though. Then I realised I was fat and noone liked me.
Dude, I've just spotted that you can put YouTube links on here.
Do you think general usage of the phrase "that's the bomb" (meaning 'that's great') has declined with inverse proportion to the terrorist use of actual bombs?
If not it could lead to a terrible ruckus, particularly if people used the phrase whilst on public transport.
I like the word ruckus. I'm not sure I've spelt it right though.
My attempt to add a YouTube video failed entirely. I don't know if you actually can do that. I'll try and then come back and edit this if I work it out.
(...5 mins later: YES! I DID IT! I kick ass!)
R x
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