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RE: Wordspotting: vernacular (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd Vernacular architecture garners 336K ghits.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Bat-shit insane (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd Some raw Google stats:"bat-shit" 134 K ghits"bat-shit crazy" 74.1 K ghits"bat-shit insane" 16.4 ghits... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: on one (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd GhitsNever heard of Ghits. Do you mean ghats?... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: on one (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman zm: It's what you do to get Ghits... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: paint=highlight? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordnerd "paint the text" gives over 10,000 ghits.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: on one (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman zm: The G is for Google. It has become a pretty common expr"Ghits Google" gets 652 Ghits... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Recall and Recollect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale quote:Originally posted by aput:Oh, it's a pure spelling error: 260 ghits is nothing, A new coinage ! ghits - hits by gits presumably.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: paruresis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman zm: Thank you for all those syns and Ghits too... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Words create reality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by jerry thomas This just in .... from the Department of Useless Information ..... "white" gets 1.17 billion ghits and "black" gets 1.84 billion ghits (without the quotation marks)... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Something's wroughten here (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd quote:We still say (insert pronoun) "wrought havoc" over here to describe vandalism, natural disasters and similar events.Ah, yes, that, too."wrought": 4.1 M ghits"wrought iron": 1.13 M ghits"wreak havoc": 667 K ghits"wrought havoc": 22.5 K ghits"what hath God wrought": K 16.9 ghits[Added stats for... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: team?mates (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz I suspect that Google treats team mates and team-mates as identical (the difference in ghits being due to approximation). You see that if you add other terms to reduce the sheer number of ghits. A search for "team-mate" androgynous yields identical numbers of ghits with and without the hyphen.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Urban myths (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordnerd quote:Originally posted by Richard English: Keats's poetry17,900 ghits for keats' poetry542 ghits for keats's poetryquote:Originally posted by Richard English:And once it's considered correct by the majority then, of course, it will be correct ...What say you now?... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: The cultural right (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordnerd Many of the ghits are off point, as they are talking about 'right' in the sense of 'rights and duties'. However, there are even more ghits for "cultural left", so your queston seems to be well taken.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: In...operability (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordmatic And yet, both Kalleh and I got ghits looking it up as "inoperability," so it must be misread and misspelled quite often!"WM... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Throw a Curve (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman "life throws you a curve" yields over 20,000 Ghits, only about one-seventh of which are rightpond-related... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Could you care less? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by jerry thomas Smear a dab of GoogleCreme on your face once or twice daily and in a few weeks you'll be rid of those ugly ghits.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Bird Nesting (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz Despite its 83,000+ ghits, "amicable divorce" does seem to be a bit of an oxymoron, doesn't it?... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: We could use these words! ;) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd Wikipedia has an article (link). Google Books yields over 15K ghits (link), but not all of them are in English or apropos.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Gates loop (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman If "Gates" is considered an adjective no apostrophe is requiredHowever, it's often omitted in the modern ambience as in "Vons grocery" (nearly 18000 Ghits)... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Over to (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd It does occur. I googled "go over somebody's house" and got 52k ghits. It may be AAVE.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words | » Refine Search » New Search |
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