Poetry Words

Some interesting findings from this simple frequency-count project: http://www.robertpeake.com/archives/6676-top-poetry-words.html

The simple, human-experience words are striking; but also the fact about the frequency in poems of words unique in the corpus.

Colour Words Research

Amazing visualisation of research comparing English and Chinese words for colour. Interesting for the way they break down and classify the words, and very beautifully presented. 

http://muyueh.com/greenhoney/?utm_content=buffer552f3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Multilingual onomatopoeia

Nyan-nyan, boo-boo, guf-guf, goro-goro-goro. 

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/nov/17/animal-noises-in-different-languages?CMP=fb_gu

Twitter search and analytics

Great find from A2 student Jess: this site enables you to search Tweets and other social media posts, and gives automated graphs of changes in usage over time. Great tool to gather language data, though remember that you need to do the thinking and choose your searches very carefully -- and this stream of data is always-changing.


http://topsy.com/