Message-ID: <25846095.1075846796730.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 23:17:00 -0800 (PST) From: wsmith@wordsmith.org To: linguaphile@wordsmith.org Subject: AWADnews, November 2000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Wordsmith X-To: linguaphile@wordsmith.org X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Susan_Scott_Dec2000_June2001_2\Notes Folders\Notes inbox X-Origin: SCOTT-S X-FileName: sscott5.nsf AWADnews November 2000 CONTENTS: 1. How Many People Receive A.Word.A.Day 2. New Countries/Domains on the List 3. Email Address of the Month AWArD 4. Credits 5. Administrivia ------------------------------ 1. How Many People Receive A.Word.A.Day Over 332,000 people in more than 192 countries receive AWAD daily. The following table shows the distribution of addresses by domain name. This table, with the flags of these countries, can be seen at: http://wordsmith.org/awad/stats.html Domain Count % Domain Description com 200780 60.3276 Commercial net 43365 13.0297 Network edu 25705 7.7235 Educational org 7567 2.2736 Non-Profit Organizations us 6209 1.8656 United States ca 5446 1.6363 Canada kr 5001 1.5026 South Korea au 4324 1.2992 Australia uk 3822 1.1484 United Kingdom in 2871 0.8626 India gov 2682 0.8059 Government de 1679 0.5045 Germany mil 1486 0.4465 USA Military pl 1438 0.4321 Poland jp 1415 0.4252 Japan cn 1321 0.3969 China br 1245 0.3741 Brazil za 1218 0.3660 South Africa nz 1020 0.3065 New Zealand sg 1011 0.3038 Singapore tw 972 0.2921 Taiwan mx 789 0.2371 Mexico es 691 0.2076 Spain fr 662 0.1989 France it 661 0.1986 Italy il 591 0.1776 Israel se 545 0.1638 Sweden my 479 0.1439 Malaysia ru 448 0.1346 Russian Federation ie 368 0.1106 Ireland vn 353 0.1061 Vietnam nl 338 0.1016 Netherlands ar 323 0.0971 Argentina id 320 0.0961 Indonesia ch 310 0.0931 Switzerland hk 293 0.0880 Hong Kong be 260 0.0781 Belgium no 256 0.0769 Norway tr 251 0.0754 Turkey th 227 0.0682 Thailand ae 217 0.0652 United Arab Emirates fi 199 0.0598 Finland dk 193 0.0580 Denmark pk 180 0.0541 Pakistan ph 169 0.0508 Philippines hu 159 0.0478 Hungary cz 151 0.0454 Czech Republic co 135 0.0406 Colombia at 121 0.0364 Austria gr 113 0.0340 Greece ua 103 0.0309 Ukraine int 102 0.0306 International fm 90 0.0270 Micronesia ro 90 0.0270 Romania pe 83 0.0249 Peru sk 78 0.0234 Slovak Republic pt 73 0.0219 Portugal sa 71 0.0213 Saudi Arabia yu 64 0.0192 Yugoslavia om 60 0.0180 Oman tt 55 0.0165 Trinidad and Tobago cl 54 0.0162 Chile ve 52 0.0156 Venezuela lt 51 0.0153 Lithuania ne 49 0.0147 Niger lb 47 0.0141 Lebanon bg 47 0.0141 Bulgaria hr 46 0.0138 Croatia cr 45 0.0135 Costa Rica si 42 0.0126 Slovenia bh 41 0.0123 Bahrain bm 39 0.0117 Bermuda ir 35 0.0105 Iran uy 35 0.0105 Uruguay np 34 0.0102 Nepal cu 33 0.0099 Cuba lk 33 0.0099 Sri Lanka ee 32 0.0096 Estonia lv 31 0.0093 Latvia su 29 0.0087 Former USSR is 29 0.0087 Iceland bw 28 0.0084 Botswana to 25 0.0075 Tonga eg 24 0.0072 Egypt cc 22 0.0066 Cocos (Keeling) Islands nu 21 0.0063 Niue am 20 0.0060 Armenia mr 20 0.0060 Mauritania fj 19 0.0057 Fiji zw 18 0.0054 Zimbabwe mt 18 0.0054 Malta ec 17 0.0051 Ecuador ke 16 0.0048 Kenya bf 16 0.0048 Burkina Faso cy 16 0.0048 Cyprus jm 16 0.0048 Jamaica na 15 0.0045 Namibia lc 15 0.0045 Saint Lucia bs 15 0.0045 Bahamas lu 14 0.0042 Luxembourg do 14 0.0042 Dominican Republic qa 14 0.0042 Qatar ma 13 0.0039 Morocco jo 13 0.0039 Jordan ba 13 0.0039 Bosnia-Herzegovina fo 12 0.0036 Faroe Islands mk 12 0.0036 Macedonia bo 11 0.0033 Bolivia sn 11 0.0033 Senegal cm 10 0.0030 Cameroon as 9 0.0027 American Samoa kh 9 0.0027 Cambodia zm 9 0.0027 Zambia vi 9 0.0027 Virgin Islands (USA) gy 9 0.0027 Guyana ge 9 0.0027 Georgia mu 8 0.0024 Mauritius by 8 0.0024 Belarus hn 8 0.0024 Honduras kw 8 0.0024 Kuwait py 8 0.0024 Paraguay mo 7 0.0021 Macau bj 7 0.0021 Benin md 7 0.0021 Moldova ky 7 0.0021 Cayman Islands ng 7 0.0021 Nigeria mg 7 0.0021 Madagascar ml 7 0.0021 Mali cx 6 0.0018 Christmas Island ag 6 0.0018 Antigua and Barbuda gn 6 0.0018 Guinea mz 6 0.0018 Mozambique ad 5 0.0015 Andorra az 5 0.0015 Azerbaijan bn 5 0.0015 Brunei Darussalam kz 5 0.0015 Kazakhstan cd 5 0.0015 Democratic Republic of the Congo et 4 0.0012 Ethiopia sz 4 0.0012 Swaziland kg 4 0.0012 Kyrgyzstan gh 4 0.0012 Ghana ci 4 0.0012 Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) gt 4 0.0012 Guatemala ye 4 0.0012 Yemen pa 4 0.0012 Panama nc 3 0.0009 New Caledonia (French) ni 3 0.0009 Nicaragua tg 3 0.0009 Togo uz 3 0.0009 Uzbekistan ug 3 0.0009 Uganda gi 3 0.0009 Gibraltar ws 3 0.0009 Samoa tm 2 0.0006 Turkmenistan tc 2 0.0006 Turks and Caicos Islands pr 2 0.0006 Puerto Rico tz 2 0.0006 Tanzania li 2 0.0006 Liechtenstein ga 2 0.0006 Gabon sy 2 0.0006 Syria an 2 0.0006 Netherlands Antilles pg 2 0.0006 Papua New Guinea je 2 0.0006 Jersey gm 2 0.0006 Gambia ms 2 0.0006 Montserrat mw 2 0.0006 Malawi bb 2 0.0006 Barbados mv 1 0.0003 Maldives mn 1 0.0003 Mongolia dm 1 0.0003 Dominica al 1 0.0003 Albania gu 1 0.0003 Guam dz 1 0.0003 Algeria aw 1 0.0003 Aruba bz 1 0.0003 Belize sr 1 0.0003 Suriname gs 1 0.0003 S. Georgia and S. Sandwich Islands cg 1 0.0003 Congo td 1 0.0003 Chad pf 1 0.0003 French Polynesia ------------- Total 332816 ------------- In addition to the above list of countries, AWAD's readership includes: Angola (ao) Anguilla (ai) Bangladesh (bd) Belize (bz) Grenada (gd) British Virgin Islands (vg) British Indian Ocean Territory (io) Haiti (ht) Rwanda (rw) Comoros (km) Antarctica (aq) Saint Kitts and Nevis Anguilla (kn) Northern Mariana Islands (mp) Guam (gu) Marshall Islands (mh) French Guiana (gf) Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (pm) El Salvador (sv) Isle of Man (im) Saint Vincent and Grenadines (vc) These places do not appear in the above table because the subscribers use addresses with a different domain. If you are from a country not listed here, drop me a line at anu@wordsmith.org and I'll add your country to this list. Stats on Address Lengths: Mean : 20.160 Median : 19 Mode : 18 Standard Deviation : 4.532 Shortest address : (6 characters) s@s.to (Stonewall Ballard) Longest address : (199 characters) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz@lachrymology.org(Adam Hill) ------------------------------ 2. New Countries/Domains on the List Saint Vincent and Grenadines (vc) Welcome aboard! ------------------------------ 3. Email Address of the Month AWArD This month the AWArD goes to: disestablishmentarianist@att.net (Wesley Myhaver) If you know of an unusual email address that is funny or clever, you are welcome to send your nomination to anu@wordsmith.org. ------------------------------ 4. Credits o AWAD is created by Anu Garg (anu@wordsmith.org). o Tip o' the hat to Todd J. Derr (tjd@wordsmith.org) for care and feeding of the computer that houses the wordserver, and keeping it smoothly running (thus providing an exception to Murphy's Law). o Thanks to Stuti Garg (stuti@wordsmith.org) of Namix (http://namix.com) for recording word pronunciations in her dulcet voice. o Thanks to Emery Reiff (emery@wordsmith.org) copy editor par excellence, for making sure all i's are dotted and t's crossed. o Thanks to Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. (http://www.lhsl.com) for permission to use the American Heritage Dictionary, 3e., in AWAD. Their lawyers have asked us to add this: The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright 1992, 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Used with permission from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved. o Thanks to Northern Light Search (http://www.northernlight.com/) for assistance with citation research. o Special thanks to all the linguaphiles who have joined and made the list what it is. ------------------------------ 5. Administrivia For press and other inquiries, please contact sureg@wordsmith.org. How to join A.Word.A.Day, sign-off, etc.: Subscribe: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscribe.html Unsubscribe: http://wordsmith.org/awad/unsubscribe.html Address Change: http://wordsmith.org/awad/address-change.html Gift subscription: http://wordsmith.org/awad/gift.html AWADtalk Bulletin Board: http://wordsmith.org/board Word list: http://wordsmith.org/awad/wordlist.html Archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Search: http://wordsmith.org/awad/search.html FAQ: http://wordsmith.org/awad/faq.html If you don't have web access, send a blank message with the word "help" in the subject line to wsmith@wordsmith.org to get the email command list for the resources mentioned above. A.Word.A.Day ISSN: 1524-6884 -- Anu Garg anu@wordsmith.org anugarg@acm.org http://wordsmith.org/anu (AWAD.20001119.236392.001.974636249)