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December 2000 CONTENTS: 1. Welcome 2. Online Chat 3. How Many People Receive A.Word.A.Day 4. New Countries/Domains on the List 5. Email Address of the Month AWArD 6. Email Address of the Year AWArD 7. Credits 8. Administrivia ------------------------------ 1. Welcome New Linguaphiles! A warm welcome to all the linguaphiles, including those who joined as a result of the story in the December 2000 issue of the Smithsonian Magazine. ------------------------------ 2. Online Chat We are pleased to announce online chat at Wordsmith. This will be a moderated chat where you can converse with guests in real time. Our first guest is John Simpson, Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). He will be joining us from Oxford, UK. The chat is scheduled for Tuesday, December 19, 2000 at 4 PM GMT (11 AM EST U.S.). You can access the chat at http://wordsmith.org/chat If you are planning to attend the chat, please drop us a line at rsvp@wordsmith.org. This will give us an estimate of the number of attendees so that we can plan better. For journalists, editors and reporters on the list, you may announce the chat with John Simpson in your publications. A transcript of the chat will be posted at http://wordsmith.org/chat following the event. ------------------------------ 3. How Many People Receive A.Word.A.Day Over 350,000 people in more than 194 countries receive AWAD daily. The following table shows the distribution of addresses by domain name. This figure includes only those who receive it directly from our mailing list. It doesn't include those who read it on the Web or TV, in newspapers, etc. This table, with the flags of these countries, can be seen at: http://wordsmith.org/awad/stats.html. Domain Count % Domain Description com 212264 60.5571 Commercial net 46290 13.2061 Network edu 26881 7.6689 Educational org 8151 2.3254 Non-Profit Organizations us 6691 1.9089 United States ca 5499 1.5688 Canada kr 4988 1.4230 South Korea au 4347 1.2402 Australia uk 3923 1.1192 United Kingdom gov 2898 0.8268 U.S. Government in 2875 0.8202 India de 1701 0.4853 Germany mil 1567 0.4471 USA Military pl 1488 0.4245 Poland cn 1461 0.4168 China jp 1417 0.4043 Japan br 1257 0.3586 Brazil za 1233 0.3518 South Africa nz 1047 0.2987 New Zealand sg 1005 0.2867 Singapore tw 989 0.2822 Taiwan mx 836 0.2385 Mexico es 706 0.2014 Spain fr 693 0.1977 France it 678 0.1934 Italy il 607 0.1732 Israel se 544 0.1552 Sweden my 486 0.1387 Malaysia ru 461 0.1315 Russian Federation ie 378 0.1078 Ireland vn 355 0.1013 Vietnam nl 350 0.0999 Netherlands ar 333 0.0950 Argentina id 318 0.0907 Indonesia ch 317 0.0904 Switzerland hk 301 0.0859 Hong Kong be 267 0.0762 Belgium no 264 0.0753 Norway tr 260 0.0742 Turkey th 227 0.0648 Thailand ae 216 0.0616 United Arab Emirates dk 201 0.0573 Denmark fi 198 0.0565 Finland pk 180 0.0514 Pakistan ph 165 0.0471 Philippines hu 161 0.0459 Hungary cz 155 0.0442 Czech Republic co 141 0.0402 Colombia at 127 0.0362 Austria gr 120 0.0342 Greece int 105 0.0300 International ua 103 0.0294 Ukraine fm 93 0.0265 Micronesia ro 91 0.0260 Romania pe 84 0.0240 Peru sk 78 0.0223 Slovak Republic sa 72 0.0205 Saudi Arabia pt 72 0.0205 Portugal yu 68 0.0194 Yugoslavia om 64 0.0183 Oman cl 55 0.0157 Chile tt 55 0.0157 Trinidad and Tobago ve 54 0.0154 Venezuela lt 52 0.0148 Lithuania ne 51 0.0145 Niger cr 48 0.0137 Costa Rica hr 47 0.0134 Croatia lb 47 0.0134 Lebanon bg 45 0.0128 Bulgaria si 43 0.0123 Slovenia bh 41 0.0117 Bahrain bm 39 0.0111 Bermuda uy 38 0.0108 Uruguay ir 37 0.0106 Iran ee 35 0.0100 Estonia lk 35 0.0100 Sri Lanka np 35 0.0100 Nepal cu 35 0.0100 Cuba is 33 0.0094 Iceland lv 31 0.0088 Latvia su 30 0.0086 Former USSR bw 29 0.0083 Botswana to 25 0.0071 Tonga cc 24 0.0068 Cocos (Keeling) Islands eg 24 0.0068 Egypt nu 23 0.0066 Niue am 21 0.0060 Armenia mr 20 0.0057 Mauritania fj 20 0.0057 Fiji zw 19 0.0054 Zimbabwe mt 18 0.0051 Malta jm 18 0.0051 Jamaica ec 17 0.0048 Ecuador cy 17 0.0048 Cyprus ke 17 0.0048 Kenya bf 16 0.0046 Burkina Faso lc 16 0.0046 Saint Lucia lu 15 0.0043 Luxembourg na 15 0.0043 Namibia jo 15 0.0043 Jordan qa 14 0.0040 Qatar do 14 0.0040 Dominican Republic bs 14 0.0040 Bahamas ba 13 0.0037 Bosnia-Herzegovina ma 13 0.0037 Morocco mk 13 0.0037 Macedonia fo 12 0.0034 Faroe Islands sn 12 0.0034 Senegal cm 11 0.0031 Cameroon as 10 0.0029 American Samoa vi 10 0.0029 Virgin Islands (USA) bo 10 0.0029 Bolivia kh 9 0.0026 Cambodia bj 9 0.0026 Benin by 9 0.0026 Belarus zm 9 0.0026 Zambia gy 9 0.0026 Guyana ge 9 0.0026 Georgia md 8 0.0023 Moldova py 8 0.0023 Paraguay mu 8 0.0023 Mauritius ky 7 0.0020 Cayman Islands cx 7 0.0020 Christmas Island ng 7 0.0020 Nigeria mo 7 0.0020 Macau hn 7 0.0020 Honduras ml 7 0.0020 Mali kw 6 0.0017 Kuwait gn 6 0.0017 Guinea mg 6 0.0017 Madagascar ag 6 0.0017 Antigua and Barbuda mz 6 0.0017 Mozambique az 5 0.0014 Azerbaijan cd 5 0.0014 Democratic Republic of the Congo kz 5 0.0014 Kazakhstan ad 5 0.0014 Andorra et 4 0.0011 Ethiopia pa 4 0.0011 Panama ye 4 0.0011 Yemen bn 4 0.0011 Brunei Darussalam ws 4 0.0011 Samoa gh 4 0.0011 Ghana sz 4 0.0011 Swaziland gt 4 0.0011 Guatemala kg 4 0.0011 Kyrgyzstan ci 4 0.0011 Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) pg 3 0.0009 Papua New Guinea tc 3 0.0009 Turks and Caicos Islands gi 3 0.0009 Gibraltar uz 3 0.0009 Uzbekistan ni 3 0.0009 Nicaragua nc 3 0.0009 New Caledonia (French) ug 3 0.0009 Uganda ga 2 0.0006 Gabon an 2 0.0006 Netherlands Antilles pr 2 0.0006 Puerto Rico gm 2 0.0006 Gambia bb 2 0.0006 Barbados tg 2 0.0006 Togo ms 2 0.0006 Montserrat mw 2 0.0006 Malawi tm 2 0.0006 Turkmenistan je 2 0.0006 Jersey li 2 0.0006 Liechtenstein tz 2 0.0006 Tanzania dz 1 0.0003 Algeria sr 1 0.0003 Suriname mv 1 0.0003 Maldives dm 1 0.0003 Dominica st 1 0.0003 Sao Tome and Principe pf 1 0.0003 French Polynesia sy 1 0.0003 Syria gs 1 0.0003 S. Georgia and S. Sandwich Islands tv 1 0.0003 Tuvalu aw 1 0.0003 Aruba bz 1 0.0003 Belize gu 1 0.0003 Guam al 1 0.0003 Albania mn 1 0.0003 Mongolia cg 1 0.0003 Congo td 1 0.0003 Chad ------------- Total 350519 ------------- 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 : 20.158 Median : 19 Mode : 18 Standard Deviation : 4.556 Shortest address : (6 characters) s@s.to (Stonewall Ballard) Longest address : (248 characters) GodLovesAnuBillCymraDavidEdFranGregHajiIanJohnKayLenMikeNanOlivePaulaQuintRuth SueTimUlricVicWesXavierYvesZackAnastasiaCourtneyAustinMarilynChrisMelodyDeirdr eArleenScottPamelaCraigCherryeRobertJaniceSpencerTylerTrevorAndEtcetera@GodLov esEveryone.org (John Knoderer) ------------------------------ 4. New Countries/Domains on the List Saint Tome and Principe (st) Tuvalu (tv) Welcome aboard! ------------------------------ 5. Email Address of the Month AWArD This month the AWArD goes to: YouCanReachUs@Whoever.com (Laura and Richard) If you know of an unusual email address that is funny or clever, you are welcome to send your nomination to anu@wordsmith.org. ------------------------------ 6. Email Address of the Year AWArD Your votes determine the 2000 Email Address of the Year AWArD. Following is a list of all the Address of the Month AWArD winners. To vote, send a blank message to the email address shown for each monthly winner that ends with '@wordsmith.org'. The annual winner will be announced in the January 2001 issue of this newsletter. One person per vote, please. Month Monthly email address winner Address owner To vote, email: Jan: overwriter@underwriters.com Gila Jones jan@wordsmith.org Feb: iamaloser@winning.com Kavi Bhalla feb@wordsmith.org Mar: a-a-a-choo@allergist.com Karl Siewert mar@wordsmith.org Apr: dante@purgatorio.com Jennifer apr@wordsmith.org May: I'mworking@homehonest.freeserve.co.uk Nick Booth may@wordsmith.org Jun: close.to.being@the-end-of-my-rope.com Terry Miller jun@wordsmith.org Jul: dot@dotat.at Tony Finch jul@wordsmith.org Aug: size-13@bigfoot.com Matt Kane aug@wordsmith.org Sep: killmenow@positive-thinking.com Sari sep@wordsmith.org Oct: error_user_doesnt_exist@yahoo.com Kathy Forth oct@wordsmith.org Nov: disestablishmentarianist@att.net Wesley Myhaver nov@wordsmith.org Dec: YouCanReachUs@Whoever.com Laura/Richard dec@wordsmith.org This is chadless voting. ------------------------------ 7. 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 melodious 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. ------------------------------ 8. 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 AWADchat: http://wordsmith.org/chat 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 "help" in the subject line to wsmith@wordsmith.org to receive 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.20001210.233006.001.976477912)
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