|
|
Enron Mail |
AWADnews
August 2000 CONTENTS: 1. A.Word.A.Day in Media 2. How Many People Receive A.Word.A.Day 3. New Countries/Domains on the List 4. Email Address of the Month AWArD 5. Credits 6. Administrivia ------------------------------ 1. A.Word.A.Day in Media A.Word.A.Day has been featured in the following places since the last update. If you have noticed it somewhere not listed below, please drop me a line at anu@wordsmith.org. o The Daily Telegraph (UK), July 8, 2000 o WBFO Radio, July 13, 2000 o Clicks Today, July 14, 2000 o Popular Computer Week (China), July 24, 2000 o The Courier Mail (Australia), July 25, 2000 o Speak Up, (Italy), July 2000 ------------------------------ 2. How Many People Receive A.Word.A.Day Over 300,000 people in more than 188 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 185116 59.4489 Commercial net 42023 13.4954 Network edu 25067 8.0501 Educational org 7006 2.2499 Non-Profit Organizations us 5785 1.8578 United States ca 5266 1.6911 Canada kr 5231 1.6799 South Korea au 4120 1.3231 Australia uk 3539 1.1365 United Kingdom in 2698 0.8664 India gov 2609 0.8379 Government de 1496 0.4804 Germany jp 1423 0.4570 Japan mil 1381 0.4435 USA Military cn 1300 0.4175 China br 1150 0.3693 Brazil za 1141 0.3664 South Africa pl 1105 0.3549 Poland sg 977 0.3138 Singapore nz 972 0.3122 New Zealand tw 950 0.3051 Taiwan es 606 0.1946 Spain fr 578 0.1856 France it 575 0.1847 Italy il 574 0.1843 Israel se 544 0.1747 Sweden my 483 0.1551 Malaysia mx 439 0.1410 Mexico ru 409 0.1313 Russian Federation vn 342 0.1098 Vietnam ie 333 0.1069 Ireland nl 325 0.1044 Netherlands id 296 0.0951 Indonesia ch 291 0.0935 Switzerland ar 286 0.0918 Argentina tr 265 0.0851 Turkey hk 254 0.0816 Hong Kong no 252 0.0809 Norway be 249 0.0800 Belgium th 213 0.0684 Thailand fi 203 0.0652 Finland ae 199 0.0639 United Arab Emirates dk 183 0.0588 Denmark pk 161 0.0517 Pakistan ph 154 0.0495 Philippines hu 145 0.0466 Hungary co 126 0.0405 Colombia cz 114 0.0366 Czech Republic at 113 0.0363 Austria gr 109 0.0350 Greece ua 97 0.0312 Ukraine int 85 0.0273 International ro 79 0.0254 Romania pt 73 0.0234 Portugal pe 71 0.0228 Peru sk 69 0.0222 Slovak Republic sa 67 0.0215 Saudi Arabia fm 62 0.0199 Micronesia yu 62 0.0199 Yugoslavia om 60 0.0193 Oman cl 56 0.0180 Chile ve 53 0.0170 Venezuela tt 51 0.0164 Trinidad and Tobago lb 43 0.0138 Lebanon lt 43 0.0138 Lithuania bg 42 0.0135 Bulgaria ne 40 0.0128 Niger si 40 0.0128 Slovenia hr 39 0.0125 Croatia bh 39 0.0125 Bahrain bm 38 0.0122 Bermuda ir 35 0.0112 Iran lk 33 0.0106 Sri Lanka uy 31 0.0100 Uruguay np 29 0.0093 Nepal cu 29 0.0093 Cuba su 29 0.0093 Former USSR bw 28 0.0090 Botswana cr 27 0.0087 Costa Rica is 27 0.0087 Iceland ee 27 0.0087 Estonia nu 25 0.0080 Niue lv 24 0.0077 Latvia eg 23 0.0074 Egypt to 23 0.0074 Tonga mr 20 0.0064 Mauritania zw 20 0.0064 Zimbabwe am 19 0.0061 Armenia bf 17 0.0055 Burkina Faso mt 17 0.0055 Malta cy 16 0.0051 Cyprus na 15 0.0048 Namibia ec 15 0.0048 Ecuador lu 15 0.0048 Luxembourg jm 15 0.0048 Jamaica bs 15 0.0048 Bahamas do 14 0.0045 Dominican Republic cc 14 0.0045 Cocos (Keeling) Islands ke 13 0.0042 Kenya lc 13 0.0042 Saint Lucia jo 13 0.0042 Jordan fo 12 0.0039 Faroe Islands qa 12 0.0039 Qatar ma 12 0.0039 Morocco fj 12 0.0039 Fiji ba 12 0.0039 Bosnia-Herzegovina sn 11 0.0035 Senegal kh 11 0.0035 Cambodia cm 11 0.0035 Cameroon kw 10 0.0032 Kuwait bo 9 0.0029 Bolivia vi 9 0.0029 Virgin Islands (USA) ge 9 0.0029 Georgia gy 9 0.0029 Guyana mu 9 0.0029 Mauritius py 9 0.0029 Paraguay by 8 0.0026 Belarus mk 8 0.0026 Macedonia hn 7 0.0022 Honduras ag 7 0.0022 Antigua and Barbuda mo 6 0.0019 Macau ng 6 0.0019 Nigeria gn 6 0.0019 Guinea bj 6 0.0019 Benin zm 6 0.0019 Zambia ml 6 0.0019 Mali md 6 0.0019 Moldova mg 6 0.0019 Madagascar as 6 0.0019 American Samoa cx 5 0.0016 Christmas Island kz 5 0.0016 Kazakhstan cd 5 0.0016 Congo gt 5 0.0016 Guatemala gh 4 0.0013 Ghana pa 4 0.0013 Panama ad 4 0.0013 Andorra mz 4 0.0013 Mozambique uz 4 0.0013 Uzbekistan sz 4 0.0013 Swaziland ci 4 0.0013 Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) bn 4 0.0013 Brunei Darussalam az 4 0.0013 Azerbaijan ni 4 0.0013 Nicaragua ky 4 0.0013 Cayman Islands ug 4 0.0013 Uganda et 3 0.0010 Ethiopia an 3 0.0010 Netherlands Antilles nc 3 0.0010 New Caledonia (French) gi 3 0.0010 Gibraltar ye 3 0.0010 Yemen pg 3 0.0010 Papua New Guinea mn 2 0.0006 Mongolia ws 2 0.0006 Samoa pr 2 0.0006 Puerto Rico tc 2 0.0006 Turks and Caicos Islands tz 2 0.0006 Tanzania tg 2 0.0006 Togo li 2 0.0006 Liechtenstein bb 2 0.0006 Barbados kg 2 0.0006 Kyrgyzstan gm 2 0.0006 Gambia dm 1 0.0003 Dominica je 1 0.0003 Jersey ga 1 0.0003 Gabon td 1 0.0003 Chad mm 1 0.0003 Myanmar gs 1 0.0003 S. Georgia and S. Sandwich Islands tm 1 0.0003 Turkmenistan aw 1 0.0003 Aruba pf 1 0.0003 French Polynesia al 1 0.0003 Albania ms 1 0.0003 Montserrat sr 1 0.0003 Suriname mv 1 0.0003 Maldives bz 1 0.0003 Belize ------------- Total 311387 ------------- 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) Malawi (mw) 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) 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 : 20.116 Median : 19 Mode : 18 Standard Deviation : 4.544 Longest address : 117 characters, I_cant_believe_people_make_up_such_long_addresses_just_to_get_honorably_mentio ned_in_the_AWAD_monthly_email@phord.com (Phil Hord) Shortest address : 6 characters, s@s.to (Stonewall Ballard) ------------------------------ 3. New Countries/Domains on the List Isle of Man (im) Welcome aboard! ------------------------------ 4. Email Address of the Month AWArD This month the AWArD goes to: size-13@bigfoot.com (Matt Kane) If you know of an unusual email address that is funny or clever, you are welcome to send your nomination to anu@wordsmith.org. ------------------------------ 5. 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 melodic 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 Electric Library (http://www.elibrary.com) for help with citation sources. 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. ------------------------------ 6. 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 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 the word "help" in the subject line to wsmith@wordsmith.org to get 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.20000811.258950.001.966005474)
|