Appendix 9

Table 16 : Results of the measurements on the Usenet

In the following table, the values that appear in front of each term correspond to the amount of quotations of these terms in the Usenet for each language. They have been counted with the Hotbot search engine on the basis of the following parameters: archive: "complete", messages: "past ⁸" . This covers all the messages archived by the engine.

	WORDS	EN	SP	FR	IT	PO	RU
1	ambiguity	60 902	700	500	1200	232	96
2	causality	22 058	515	146	200	100	15
3	cheese	371 096	5 900	11 600	6 931	569	522
4	compatibility	271 900	3 600	4 000	5 600	823	40
5	contiguity	1 105	5	11	72	1	1
6	dangerous	1 100 000	15 900	34 100	31 700	3 700	77
7	december	540 000	11 000	3 700	12 000	4 100	1 200
8	density	175 000	2 280	655	1 600	520	23
9	disparity	42 800	360	298	500	98	7
10	divisibility	717	10	7	95	2	0
11	elasticity	11 300	310	79	1 000	64	8
12	electricity	190 500	4 603	5 507	800	901	30
13	february	430 000	13 000	2 600	11 000	2 800	800
14	femininity	11 023	185	93	500	28	7
15	fertility	52 027	300	50	300	100	12
16	fidelity	74 061	1 530	2 900	1 701	925	82
17	fraternity	142 200	850	1 034	1 000	615	37
18	friday	1 549 000	25 000	28 400	25 000	2 200	598
19	heterosexuality	16 000	100	40	600	31	1
20	homosexuality	210 300	2 609	808	4 600	300	34
21	horse	1 190 000	10 300	21 100	27 000	2 200	297
22	humidity	120 900	999	410	800	53	4
23	illness	426 200	13 600	35 000	23 900	2 229	678
24	immortality	54 034	908	63	300	4	5
25	immunity	63 402	449	600	600	310	142
26	incompatibility	60 000	2 300	2 100	2 500	300	61
27	infallibility	11 000	402	78	500	38	0
28	inferiority	38 400	1 504	204	1 100	400	54
29	infidelity	20 500	407	51	100	700	7
30	instability	52 700	1 030	300	900	206	129
31	inviolability	1 300	92	11	39	400	35
32	irregularity	22 300	500	241	1 100	153	2
33	irresponsibility	13 400	1 130	106	200	612	45
34	june	1 300 000	15 000	48 000	30 000	5 600	600
35	knee	660 000	3 300	8 800	10 400	1 400	47
36	knife	304 700	2 200	6 300	31 800	3 100	3 245
37	lung	220 000	1 300	1 700	2 900	198	46
38	masculinity	16 000	200	14	57	90	4
39	monday	1 251 000	26 000	24 700	17 000	1 845	5 400
40	october	550 000	9 300	13 000	11 000	4 400	400
41	parity	234 400	9 310	11 620	5 908	1 827	162
42	probability	328 000	5 500	1 800	10 000	2 100	26
43	productivity	221 000	1 810	1 210	1 100	901	52
44	puberty	39 013	200	89	200	100	21
45	responsibility	1 534 000	21 000	22 500	9 700	6 900	443
46	sexuality	192 100	1 830	430	2 400	1 115	12
47	singularity	58 300	580	171	300	120	11
48	superiority	130 300	21 017	628	3 100	1 317	103
49	thursday	1 017 000	18 000	20 500	13 000	1 303	1 400
50	today	6 400 000	140 000	100 000	210 000	35 000	9 200
51	truth	2 515 000	150 000	16 000	45 000	29 000	3 700
52	tuesday	977 000	17 000	41 600	11 000	716	42
53	uniformity	16 044	407	73	400	53	7
54	universality	9 000	504	100	200	47	23
55	university	12 250 000	1 110 000	152 000	80 000	38 000	1 400
56	wednesday	830 000	7 600	17 000	8 300	19 000	1 100
57	yellow	760 000	18 300	20 300	44 400	3 500	248
	TOTAL	39 158 982	1 702 736	665 327	713 603	183 346	32 741

8 Currently DejaNews interface, obliges to do a first search precising "complete" archive, and then go to the result page and indicate "past" messages.