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canadian postal codes that spell words

May 17, 2021April 19, 2016 by David

l33t (leet, 1337) is a simple substitution cipher that started in BBSes in the early 1980s (ah, how I remember my …

The Most Decade-Specific Words of the Past Two Centuries

May 17, 2021October 21, 2014 by David

This is from an analysis of Brigham Young University’s Corpus of Historical American English, sort of a way-better-curated and easier-to-search version …

[Word Cloud] Comic book superhero names

May 17, 2021October 9, 2013 by David

It’s been a while since I had this idea, but I struggled to find a good corpus of names to …

Word Cloud of The Catcher in the Rye

May 17, 2021September 9, 2013 by David

This word cloud is based not on a published book cover, but on an artist’s homage that is, in my …

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