Miss Wyatt found this site, Wordcount, on someone else’s blog. I found it on her class blog. Now you’ve found it on our blog - the wonders of networking!
This site is fascinating; did you know that chocolate is the 4,204th most used word in English? Or that James is number 1000? The is the most commonly used word, and conquistador comes last in the database, at 86,800th!
Check out the wordle for a few others I picked out, then go and search yourself!
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August 19th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Hi Mrs C
I made a blog for my family. It looks
pretty borying with one post. I can’t work out how to
put the cluster map on the side bar.
I think i have a lot of work to do!
I reckon it will be a lot of fun because it has been fun with my blog.
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August 19th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
This is my URL for my family’s blog.
http://zoesfamily.edublogs.org
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August 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Hello,
Thank you for your comment.
I really like the picture, and I can’t believe that chocolate has been said “4204.”
I really enjoyed exploring your blog.
Hope to keep in touch…..
Tooooodles
Lilly
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August 21st, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Hi Mrs C,
i knew that school could be you sh”226″.
Thats amzing.
Maybe you and your class could make a memory game.Like to this:
You have cards on your table or floor and then put it on a table or floor and the children in your class sits in a circle and picks a card up and try to say the number for the words.[if you are learning more you could tell your children to practise it before they start the game.] if you want to, have a go!!!
bye
From Mrs C: Hi Katherine, that’s a good idea, to make a memory game out of the numbers. I don’t know if the ranking of words changes with time though - for instance, I’ll bet the words “Beijing” and “medal” got quite a boost in the last week or so! Thanks for the comment.
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August 22nd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Hi Mrs C I don’t know if you know but we can see the flags, pigly wigly and Percey the pencil. Theyare soooooo cool!!!
Stacey!!!
From Mrs C: That’s great to hear Stacey - thanks for letting me know.
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August 26th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Hi MrsC!
That’s awesome how you can see how common the words are. Kim and Nikita and Courtney say Hi!!
From Us
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August 26th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Hi Mrs C
I am Nadine from the Allstars!
I am truly amazed by the works of wordcount, which is awesome!! I can’t believe chocolate is used THAT much! Wow… very fascinating…
I searched the word “Hi” and it turned up used 69446945 times!! Wow, how cool is that!!
Thanks for sharing such an extraordinary site with us all.
Nadine
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August 28th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Hi Mrs C and your class. I am setting up some blogs for our students who are in Year 8. I would like to create a link to your page so that they can see some great examples of blogs. Thanks for the link to the Wordcount site. Can’t wait to try this out.
From Mrs C: Thanks for using our blogs as examples. We like wordcount too - it’s fun to see the ranking our names get. I like the way these sites get passed on from blog to blog - great networking.
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