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Discussion Topic  RE: Wordspotting: vernacular (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
Vernacular architecture garners 336K ghits....
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Discussion Topic  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...
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Discussion Topic  RE: on one (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
GhitsNever heard of Ghits. Do you mean ghats?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: on one (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
zm: It's what you do to get Ghits...
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Discussion Topic  RE: paint=highlight? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordnerd
"paint the text" gives over 10,000 ghits....
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Discussion Topic  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...
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Discussion Topic  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....
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Discussion Topic  RE: paruresis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
zm: Thank you for all those syns and Ghits too...
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Discussion Topic  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)...
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Discussion Topic  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...
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Poll  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....
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Discussion Topic  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?...
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Discussion Topic  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....
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Discussion Topic  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...
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Discussion Topic  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...
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Poll  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....
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Discussion Topic  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?...
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Discussion Topic  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....
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Discussion Topic  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)...
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Discussion Topic  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....
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