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  1. I would have thought "The" would be mor43e prominent. Perhaps I am misunderstanding the technique. Cool cover tho-

    Comment by Donnageddon — September 10, 2009 @ 12:10 am

  2. @Donnageddon: Wordle takes out what it deems to be common words in whatever language you use. You can turn that function off, which is neat, but for the most part that isn't very useful.

    Comment by Minerva — September 10, 2009 @ 4:05 am

  3. That's awesome!

    Wordle actually tosses commonly used words like "a", "the", and "of". Otherwise, it'd be pretty boring, but I believe it's an option. I know a bunch of writers who use this to determine their "fat" words and which they overuse.

    Comment by Kaige — September 10, 2009 @ 5:53 am

  4. From the FAQ on the worlde site:

    Why can't I get this particular word to show up in the Wordle?

    Wordle probably thinks that the word is a “stop word” (a frequently-used, but unimportant word, such as “the”, “and”, or “but”) in some language. See the “Language” menu for a setting to turn off the removal of such common words.

    Before hacking the algorithm, the most common word that was shown was "like", but that wasn't counting the words that were considered "stop words".

    Comment by Ross — September 10, 2009 @ 7:21 am

  5. [...] 30, 2009 by Jonathan Danz Words and Coffee as seen by wordle.net. I borrowed the idea from Cory Doctorow’s post. He hacked the post and entered his name and Little Brother a whole heap to make them stand out. [...]

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  6. [...] Neuerung habe ich ein neues Cover dazugelegt, also alle Podcastabonnenten dürften heute ein Wordle-Cover beim Hörbuch [...]

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