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AWADnews
September 2000
CONTENTS:
1. A.Word.A.Day in Media
2. How Many People Receive A.Word.A.Day
3. New Countries/Domains on the List
4. Email Address of the Month AWArD
5. Credits
6. Administrivia
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1. A.Word.A.Day in Media
A.Word.A.Day has been featured in the following places since the last
update. If you have noticed it somewhere not listed below, please drop
me a line at anu@wordsmith.org.
o The Mercury (Australia), Aug 2, 2000
o The Louisville Courier-Journal, Aug 14, 2000
o The San Jose Mercury News, Sep 17, 2000
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2. How Many People Receive A.Word.A.Day
Over 320,000 people in more than 189 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 191809 59.8399 Commercial
net 42452 13.2440 Network
edu 25402 7.9248 Educational
org 7337 2.2890 Non-Profit Organizations
us 5963 1.8603 United States
ca 5352 1.6697 Canada
kr 5126 1.5992 South Korea
au 4215 1.3150 Australia
uk 3615 1.1278 United Kingdom
in 2800 0.8735 India
gov 2671 0.8333 Government
de 1576 0.4917 Germany
mil 1445 0.4508 USA Military
jp 1421 0.4433 Japan
cn 1305 0.4071 China
pl 1284 0.4006 Poland
za 1196 0.3731 South Africa
br 1188 0.3706 Brazil
nz 991 0.3092 New Zealand
sg 987 0.3079 Singapore
tw 947 0.2954 Taiwan
es 643 0.2006 Spain
it 619 0.1931 Italy
fr 604 0.1884 France
il 587 0.1831 Israel
se 543 0.1694 Sweden
mx 522 0.1629 Mexico
my 490 0.1529 Malaysia
ru 425 0.1326 Russian Federation
ie 357 0.1114 Ireland
vn 343 0.1070 Vietnam
nl 326 0.1017 Netherlands
id 309 0.0964 Indonesia
ch 302 0.0942 Switzerland
ar 299 0.0933 Argentina
hk 266 0.0830 Hong Kong
tr 263 0.0820 Turkey
be 252 0.0786 Belgium
no 249 0.0777 Norway
th 229 0.0714 Thailand
fi 202 0.0630 Finland
ae 202 0.0630 United Arab Emirates
dk 193 0.0602 Denmark
pk 161 0.0502 Pakistan
ph 158 0.0493 Philippines
hu 145 0.0452 Hungary
co 130 0.0406 Colombia
cz 123 0.0384 Czech Republic
at 114 0.0356 Austria
gr 110 0.0343 Greece
ua 97 0.0303 Ukraine
int 86 0.0268 International
ro 82 0.0256 Romania
fm 77 0.0240 Micronesia
pt 76 0.0237 Portugal
pe 76 0.0237 Peru
sk 73 0.0228 Slovak Republic
sa 68 0.0212 Saudi Arabia
om 60 0.0187 Oman
yu 60 0.0187 Yugoslavia
cl 57 0.0178 Chile
ve 56 0.0175 Venezuela
lt 50 0.0156 Lithuania
tt 50 0.0156 Trinidad and Tobago
lb 44 0.0137 Lebanon
bg 42 0.0131 Bulgaria
ne 41 0.0128 Niger
si 39 0.0122 Slovenia
bm 39 0.0122 Bermuda
cr 39 0.0122 Costa Rica
hr 39 0.0122 Croatia
bh 38 0.0119 Bahrain
ir 35 0.0109 Iran
uy 34 0.0106 Uruguay
lk 32 0.0100 Sri Lanka
np 30 0.0094 Nepal
su 30 0.0094 Former USSR
ee 30 0.0094 Estonia
cu 28 0.0087 Cuba
bw 27 0.0084 Botswana
lv 27 0.0084 Latvia
is 26 0.0081 Iceland
to 24 0.0075 Tonga
eg 24 0.0075 Egypt
nu 23 0.0072 Niue
mr 21 0.0066 Mauritania
am 20 0.0062 Armenia
zw 18 0.0056 Zimbabwe
mt 17 0.0053 Malta
cc 17 0.0053 Cocos (Keeling) Islands
bf 17 0.0053 Burkina Faso
lu 15 0.0047 Luxembourg
ec 15 0.0047 Ecuador
na 15 0.0047 Namibia
fj 15 0.0047 Fiji
do 15 0.0047 Dominican Republic
jm 15 0.0047 Jamaica
cy 15 0.0047 Cyprus
lc 14 0.0044 Saint Lucia
ma 14 0.0044 Morocco
bs 14 0.0044 Bahamas
ke 14 0.0044 Kenya
qa 13 0.0041 Qatar
jo 13 0.0041 Jordan
ba 12 0.0037 Bosnia-Herzegovina
fo 12 0.0037 Faroe Islands
cm 11 0.0034 Cameroon
kh 11 0.0034 Cambodia
bo 10 0.0031 Bolivia
sn 10 0.0031 Senegal
vi 9 0.0028 Virgin Islands (USA)
as 9 0.0028 American Samoa
ge 9 0.0028 Georgia
gy 9 0.0028 Guyana
py 8 0.0025 Paraguay
mk 8 0.0025 Macedonia
kw 8 0.0025 Kuwait
mu 8 0.0025 Mauritius
zm 8 0.0025 Zambia
ky 7 0.0022 Cayman Islands
ng 7 0.0022 Nigeria
hn 7 0.0022 Honduras
by 7 0.0022 Belarus
bj 6 0.0019 Benin
mg 6 0.0019 Madagascar
mo 6 0.0019 Macau
ml 6 0.0019 Mali
md 6 0.0019 Moldova
ag 6 0.0019 Antigua and Barbuda
gn 6 0.0019 Guinea
gt 5 0.0016 Guatemala
cx 5 0.0016 Christmas Island
kz 5 0.0016 Kazakhstan
cd 5 0.0016 Congo
ad 5 0.0016 Andorra
az 5 0.0016 Azerbaijan
gh 4 0.0012 Ghana
pa 4 0.0012 Panama
ni 4 0.0012 Nicaragua
sz 4 0.0012 Swaziland
ci 4 0.0012 Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire)
mz 4 0.0012 Mozambique
ug 4 0.0012 Uganda
bn 4 0.0012 Brunei Darussalam
et 3 0.0009 Ethiopia
uz 3 0.0009 Uzbekistan
gi 3 0.0009 Gibraltar
nc 3 0.0009 New Caledonia (French)
pg 3 0.0009 Papua New Guinea
ye 3 0.0009 Yemen
tg 2 0.0006 Togo
pr 2 0.0006 Puerto Rico
gm 2 0.0006 Gambia
li 2 0.0006 Liechtenstein
td 2 0.0006 Chad
tz 2 0.0006 Tanzania
ms 2 0.0006 Montserrat
kg 2 0.0006 Kyrgyzstan
je 2 0.0006 Jersey
ws 2 0.0006 Samoa
bb 2 0.0006 Barbados
tc 2 0.0006 Turks and Caicos Islands
an 2 0.0006 Netherlands Antilles
tm 2 0.0006 Turkmenistan
ga 1 0.0003 Gabon
sy 1 0.0003 Syria
gs 1 0.0003 S. Georgia and S. Sandwich Islands
mv 1 0.0003 Maldives
al 1 0.0003 Albania
mn 1 0.0003 Mongolia
mm 1 0.0003 Myanmar
dm 1 0.0003 Dominica
pf 1 0.0003 French Polynesia
bz 1 0.0003 Belize
sr 1 0.0003 Suriname
dz 1 0.0003 Algeria
aw 1 0.0003 Aruba
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Total 320537
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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)
Malawi (mw)
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)
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 : 20.134
Median : 19
Mode : 18
Standard Deviation : 4.540
Longest address : 117 characters,
I_cant_believe_people_make_up_such_long_addresses_just_to_get_honorably_mentio
ned_in_the_AWAD_monthly_email@phord.com (Phil Hord)
Shortest address : 6 characters, s@s.to (Stonewall Ballard)
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3. New Countries/Domains on the List
Syria (sy)
Welcome aboard!
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4. Email Address of the Month AWArD
This month the AWArD goes to:
killmenow@positive-thinking.com (Sari)
If you know of an unusual email address that is funny or clever, you are
welcome to send your nomination to anu@wordsmith.org.
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5. 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 melodic 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.
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6. Administrivia
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A.Word.A.Day ISSN: 1524-6884
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