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Just tried dictionary.com...

No entry found for Goibniu.
Did you mean Gibing?

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http://community-2.webtv.net/TerMcC/Goibniu/

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Goibniu
try this marie

http://www.shee-eire.com/Magic&Mythology/Gods&Goddess/Celtic/Gods/Goibniu/Page1.htm

Is it dynamic? If I write a word dozens of times, will that move it up the list?

(just a thought)

It may depend on which walls you write it.

No - it doesn't help, TC. It's a huge database frequency count that doesn't take hootoo into account. What's the use of it? Well, those of us who teach English vocab should aim to cover the first five thousand in a lower level course. Otherwise the main use IS as an oracle.
I was also surprised about "workless" but it doesn't appear in any of our office dictionaries, except Chambers, which reckons it's Anglo Saxon

That's a very interesting word count site! I'm disgusted that Gnomon doesn't appear at all. It's not that unusual a word is it? I've certainly seen it in print a few times and I have never come across such words as "iue", which is in the archive.

My surname comes up with a nice sequence of words:

McAuley underdogs inquirer tactician

What a wonderful site! Some random findings:

James Joyce would rejoice at the inclusion of Molly Bloom's pet word metempsychosis at no. 85680, flanked by discomposed alehouses . . .

My first name is at 2248 after funny, my surname at 5173 followed by stiff archbishop . . .

At 86683, flashers demobilize motorspeeder . . .

"Duncan" is only a small distance from "Transmission". Unfortunately for my car this is not true in reality.

Two more from the WORDCOUNT:

Bush admit specifically agents smell

Kerry burglars yielding insensitive squads

Mine's followed by hell apparent continuing.

Surname that was. What an interesting bunch of simulposts.

I'm still stunned by 'conquistador' coming so low down. Is there anyone here that doesn't know the word or hasn't seen it written somewhere? I'm not so sure we could claim that very many of the words that come before it!

...but look: 4304 microsoft|4305 acquire|4306 salary|4307 tremendous

This is a wind up site surely!

The British National Corpus (qv) on which this frequewncy count is based consists of 100 million words taken from samples of current writing and speech. There might have been randomness in the original source selection (but not in the frequency count) as it obviously didn't use hootoo.
That said
trustee WANDERING battles judgements and
substitutes brooks DEVIANCE bunny rincewind. What the hell is 'rincewind"?
ps Change the topic, someone.

Rincewind is a person's name, a character in many of the Terry Pratchett books.

>The British National Corpus (. . .) consists of 100 million words taken from samples of current writing and speech.<

Taking them from speech, who decides on the spleling?

And talking of splienlg, have you seen this:

>I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg!

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!<

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It becomes inportant when you deal with similar words. (Also, for some reason, the average middle-school teacher is unable to read that kind of seppling)

Hmmm. So in this list of words a made up character will score highly if a series of books starring that character happen to be in the corpus. The problem then becomes that you can't use any dictionalry to check what words in the list mean as they may be proper names!

How about these:

'Thy distortion contaminated ruthless rehearsal, sexy Stalin.'
or
(If only this next were true!)
'Manipulative, fruity Adolf waived munitions'
or
'Opposing aspirations: Jerusalem, indiginous gloom jungle.'

I'm ready to change thread now.