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Date:Sat, 18 Nov 2000 23:17:00 -0800 (PST)

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

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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
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Total 332816
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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)
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)

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2. New Countries/Domains on the List

Saint Vincent and Grenadines (vc)

Welcome aboard!

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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.

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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.

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5. Administrivia

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(AWAD.20001119.236392.001.974636249)