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To test this I went to google and did searches for the basic 11 colors, and a couple of others, noting the number of hits found. The big 11: red 12,110,000,0
by CWuestefeld 10y ago
To test this I went to google and did searches for the basic 11 colors, and a couple of others, noting the number of hits found.
The big 11:
red 12,110,000,000
orange 7,040,000,000
yellow 6,370,000,000
green 13,850,000,000
blue 15,100,000,000
purple 10,160,000,000
black 13,390,000,000
white 12,330,000,000
gray 14,950,000,000
brown 10,160,000,000
pink 4,700,000,000
... and some test cases
maroon 152,000,000
teal 7,320,000,000
navy 870,000,000
cyan 110,000,000
I think the frequency explanation has trouble, since "teal" has more hits than "orange", "yellow", and (by a lot) "pink".
- jedberg 10y agoGoogle is not a corpus of text. Usually you remove proper nouns when doing a word frequency analysis. Pink, Maroon and Navy are all proper nouns -- Singer/songwriter, band (Maroon 5), and branch of the military. Also, a Google search only gets you documents that have that word at least once, but removes duplicates. So maybe the page with red has it listed 7,000 times but you wouldn't know. Trying using all the text in Project Gutenberg[0], removing the proper nouns, and then run the analysis again. Linguists have done this for you already -- and the results were that your top list are in the top 300 and the bottom are not. [0]https://www.gutenberg.org https://www.gutenberg.org