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A Tambur is a musical instrument. Learn to google, please.

• Swizec 14y ago
  That wasn't the point. And I actually played a version of the tambur as a kid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamburica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamburica
  • Kudos 14y ago
    That was the point, your suggestion was that it was either an uncanny coincidence (really?) or someone you know. My contention was that as a word that returns two and a half million results on Google, it was obviously neither.
    • Swizec 14y ago
      Two and a half million results doesn't make this word very common at all. Even "frolicking" returns twice that. Besides, looking through the first two pages of those results, most are people's last names.
      • Kudos 14y ago
        "Even" frolicking? Frolicking is a pretty common word. If it was called frolicking.io and you knew someone who went by the username, you would similarly assume it was either an uncanny coincidence or it was that person you knew?
        • 5l 14y ago
          Thank you, both of you, for such a relevant and intellectually stimulating discussion.
          • Kudos 14y ago
            Blame the lack of a downvote button on my account.
        • Swizec 14y ago
          Probably not because it's a verb. But I might, because finding small relationships between things makes life more interesting. And now I'm very intrigued if there's a database of all or most english words ranked by their frequency. Something like the full Oxford English Dictionary, but with frequency ranks.