Indeed, at least a caption is called for. This figure shows the number of results for a Google Image Search for various words, as a function of word length. The letter(s) in parentheses are repeated several times, e.g. "sw(e)t" shows the number of results for {swt, swet, sweet, sweeet, ...} There's a peak at 5, i.e. the real spelling of sweet.
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These deserve their own blog, an explanation and a theoretical study. I'm deadly fucking serious.
Easily one article in a social science journal.
Indeed, at least a caption is called for. This figure shows the number of results for a Google Image Search for various words, as a function of word length. The letter(s) in parentheses are repeated several times, e.g. "sw(e)t" shows the number of results for {swt, swet, sweet, sweeet, ...} There's a peak at 5, i.e. the real spelling of sweet.
Wow.
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