H Duffy <hester_duffy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
: >> Matthew King <making@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:g33f73$au7$1
: >> @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
: >>> Don't forget mothers'/mothers/mother's day: 16 700
: >>> Don't forget fathers'/fathers/father's day: 100 000
: The balance might be restored somewhat if you add "Don't forget
Mothering
: Sunday".
Don't forget Mothering Sunday: 50
BTW, there seems to be some confusion: these are plain old google hits,
i.e., google's estimated numbers of websites known by google that have
these phrases on them.
Incidentally:
I hate my mother: 285 000
I hate my mom: 250 000
I hate my mum: 51 300
I hate me mum: 4
I hate my mummy: 294
I hate my mama: 272
I hate my father: 22 500
I hate my dad: 32 400
I hate me dad: 9
I hate my daddy: 4680
I hate my papa: 6
I hate my sister: 237 000
I hate my brother: 212 000
I hate my daughter: 25 500
I hate my son: 21 400
I hate my aunt: 6910
I hate my auntie: 6
I hate my uncle: 11 100
I hate my niece: 1410
I hate my nephew: 471
I hate my grandmother: 2760
I hate my grandfather: 4000
I hate my grandma: 7160
I hate my grandpa: 1970
I hate my granddad: 0
I hate my grandad: 3
I hate my granddaughter: 0
I hate my grandson: 0
I love my mother: 1 730 000
I love my father: 1 390 000
I love my sister: 3 440 000
I love my brother: 2 520 000
I love my daugher: 1 720 000
I love my son: 2 560 000
I love my aunt: 42 100
I love my auntie: 40 400
I love my uncle: 421 000
I love my niece: 236 000
I love my nephew: 251 000
I love my grandmother: 14 300
I love my grandma: 60 000
I love my grandfather: 217 000
I love my grandpa: 31 600
I love my granddad: 2290
I love my grandad: 28 200
I love my granddaughter: 40 200
I love my grandson: 68 400
And here's something deeply suspicious: I was wondering how many "I hate
my sister"s are due to Julianna Hatfield, so I tried "'I hate my sister'
-hatfield" and got 18 500. It seemed unlikely that Julianna Hatfield
accounts for 92% of the anglophone world's sister-haters, so I tried "'I
hate my sister' -julianna" and came up with 237 000. Uh oh. (Except
actually it's "Juliana". Anyway, "'I hate my sister' 'Juliana Hatfield'"
turns up 527. "'I hate my sister' hatfield" turns up 733, so I don't know
how google is missing those other 200 000 when you tell it not to look for
hatfield.)
Matthew
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sometime we may go back there
to the country of our defeat
but it's been a long time since
and we must enquire the way of strangers
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