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- Subject: GEN: AWAD News, November 1997
- From: Anton Ninno <anton@ERICIR.SYR.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 11:21:28 -0500
FYI - a useful, free, vocabulary listserv! - Anton
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 00:38:43 -0500
From: Wordsmith <wsmith@wordsmith.org>
To: linguaphile@wordsmith.org
Subject: AWADnews, November 1997
AWADnews
November 1997
CONTENTS:
0. A.Word.A.Day in media.
1. How many people get A.Word.A.Day?
2. New countries/domains on the list.
3. Email Address of the Month AWArD.
4. Credits.
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0. A.Word.A.Day in media:
A.Word.A.Day has been featured in the following publications since the
last update. If you noticed it in a publication not listed here, please
drop me a line.
o Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, October 5, 1997
o Daily Mountain Eagle (Jasper, AL), October 12,1997
o Arizona Daily Star, October 10, 1997
o Charlotte Observer, October 10, 1997
o Electronic Telegraph (UK), October 1997
o CNN Interactive, October 14, 1997
o Best of the Web from Snap! Online, October 1997
o KKSF, 103.7 FM (San Francisco, CA), October 29, 1997
o TipWorld Email List of the Day, October 30, 1997
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1. How many people get A.Word.A.Day?
Following table shows the distribution of the addresses by domain names.
Domain Count %age Domain Description
com 42142 45.548 Commercial, mainly USA
edu 14806 16.003 Educational, mainly USA
net 12211 13.198 Network
kr 3554 3.841 South Korea
ca 2441 2.638 Canada
us 2271 2.455 United States
org 2151 2.325 Non-Profit Organizations
gov 1374 1.485 USA Government
au 1314 1.420 Australia
uk 1262 1.364 United Kingdom
jp 980 1.059 Japan
in 956 1.033 India
mil 628 0.679 USA Military
se 482 0.521 Sweden
de 457 0.494 Germany
tw 416 0.450 Taiwan
za 353 0.382 South Africa
sg 353 0.382 Singapore
nz 291 0.315 New Zealand
my 284 0.307 Malaysia
br 262 0.283 Brazil
it 209 0.226 Italy
es 204 0.220 Spain
cn 194 0.210 China
il 185 0.200 Israel
mx 183 0.198 Mexico
fr 166 0.179 France
nl 157 0.170 Netherlands
no 157 0.170 Norway
fi 145 0.157 Finland
hk 141 0.152 Hong Kong
ie 128 0.138 Ireland
ru 124 0.134 Russian Federation
be 113 0.122 Belgium
ch 110 0.119 Switzerland
dk 91 0.098 Denmark
th 87 0.094 Thailand
tr 73 0.079 Turkey
ph 69 0.075 Philippines
pl 61 0.066 Poland
id 58 0.063 Indonesia
hu 54 0.058 Hungary
ar 51 0.055 Argentina
at 50 0.054 Austria
gr 47 0.051 Greece
cz 40 0.043 Czech Republic
pk 34 0.037 Pakistan
co 31 0.034 Colombia
su 28 0.030 Former USSR
ae 26 0.028 United Arab Emirates
pt 25 0.027 Portugal
ua 22 0.024 Ukraine
sk 21 0.023 Slovak Republic
lt 21 0.023 Lithuania
ro 20 0.022 Romania
si 19 0.021 Slovenia
eg 19 0.021 Egypt
bh 17 0.018 Bahrain
ve 16 0.017 Venezuela
cl 15 0.016 Chile
cr 15 0.016 Costa Rica
yu 14 0.015 Yugoslavia
jm 14 0.015 Jamaica
sa 14 0.015 Saudi Arabia
pe 14 0.015 Peru
tt 13 0.014 Trinidad and Tobago
hr 12 0.013 Croatia
bg 11 0.012 Bulgaria
zw 11 0.012 Zimbabwe
bm 10 0.011 Bermuda
int 10 0.011 International
lv 10 0.011 Latvia
ee 9 0.010 Estonia
is 9 0.010 Iceland
kw 8 0.009 Kuwait
uy 8 0.009 Uruguay
py 8 0.009 Paraguay
np 7 0.008 Nepal
om 7 0.008 Oman
ir 7 0.008 Iran
cy 6 0.006 Cyprus
mt 6 0.006 Malta
qa 6 0.006 Qatar
lb 4 0.004 Lebanon
uz 4 0.004 Uzbekistan
gt 4 0.004 Guatemala
jo 3 0.003 Jordan
by 3 0.003 Belarus
ky 3 0.003 Cayman Islands
do 3 0.003 Dominican Republic
lk 3 0.003 Sri Lanka
to 3 0.003 Tonga
ec 3 0.003 Ecuador
na 3 0.003 Namibia
gh 3 0.003 Ghana
hn 3 0.003 Honduras
bn 2 0.002 Brunei Darussalam
bs 2 0.002 Bahamas
zm 2 0.002 Zambia
cm 2 0.002 Cameroon
kz 2 0.002 Kazakhstan
lc 2 0.002 Saint Lucia
lu 2 0.002 Luxembourg
md 2 0.002 Moldova
ni 2 0.002 Nicaragua
gb 2 0.002 Great Britain
ge 2 0.002 Georgia
pa 2 0.002 Panama
an 2 0.002 Netherlands Antilles
ke 1 0.001 Kenya
kh 1 0.001 Cambodia
cu 1 0.001 Cuba
sv 1 0.001 El Salvador
ma 1 0.001 Morocco
mg 1 0.001 Madagascar
mu 1 0.001 Mauritius
mv 1 0.001 Maldives
mz 1 0.001 Mozambique
fj 1 0.001 Fiji
vi 1 0.001 Virgin Islands (USA)
gu 1 0.001 Guam (USA)
ad 1 0.001 Andorra
bitnet 1 0.001 Bitnet
ag 1 0.001 Antigua and Barbuda
Other 12 0.013 Numeric and other unrecognized domain names
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Total 92523
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Stats on Address Lengths:
Mean : 20.752
Median : 20.000
Mode : 18
Standard Deviation : 5.496
Longest address length : 206
Longest address : Este_ritmo_agita_poco_a_poco__Tiene_pica_pica_y_
tambien_saoco__Porque_ha_nacido_del_vientre_del_
caribe__Y_el_mundo_recibe__Todo_el_calor_que_
trae._El_Son_Montuno.__VIVELO_Y_BAILA_ESTE_MONTUNO
@aschwanden.net
Shortest address length: 6
Shortest addresses : .@5.to, s@s.to
Percentage of all people in the world with email access (71 million,
according to Matrix News) who are subscribed to AWAD: 0.130%
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2. New countries/domains on the list.
o Cambodia (kh)
Welcome aboard!
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3. Email Address of the Month AWArD.
This section highlights an interesting email address on AWAD list.
For this month, the Email Address of the Month AWArD goes to:
countdown@10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-0.com [Roger G.]
If you know of an interesting email address, you are welcome to send
your nomination to anu@wordsmith.org.
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4. Credits.
o AWAD is created by Anu Garg.
o Tip o' the hat to Todd J. Derr (tjd@wordsmith.org) for care and feeding
OF The computer which houses the wordserver, and keeping it smoothly
running (thus setting an exception to the Murphy's Law).
o Special thanks to all the linguaphiles who joined and made the list what
it is.
--
Anu Garg anu@wordsmith.org http://www.wordsmith.org/anu
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