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Google Trends would be a great way to investigate this, but unfortunately the search volume for "Athabaskan" (and related spellings) is too low for it to register.<BR>
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Ryan Denzer-King<BR> <BR>> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:45:29 -1000<BR>> From: jcrippen@GMAIL.COM<BR>> Subject: Google hits for Athabaskan spellings<BR>> To: ATHAPBASCKAN-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<BR>> <BR>> I've decided to start chronicling the numbers of Google hits for the<BR>> different spellings of "Athabaskan". Results below are for google.com<BR>> (USA) and google.ca (Canada). The "dym" is Google's "Did you mean"<BR>> suggestion.<BR>> <BR>> google.com<BR>> Athabaskan: 150,000<BR>> Athabascan: 149,000<BR>> Athapaskan: 107,000 (dym: Athabaskan)<BR>> Athapascan: 206,000 (dym: Athabascan)<BR>> <BR>> google.ca<BR>> Athabaskan: 149,000<BR>> Athabascan: 149,000<BR>> Athapaskan: 107,000 (dym: Athabaskan)<BR>> Athapascan: 207,000 (dym: Athabascan)<BR>> <BR>> These results are of course skewed and unreliable for all sorts of<BR>> reasons. I have no idea how different hits are selected for the two<BR>> countries. The results also include things that are only tangentially<BR>> related, like the HMCS Athabaskan, the Athabasca(n) Oil Sands, the<BR>> lake, various company names, and who knows what else. But they're<BR>> interesting nonetheless.<BR>> <BR>> I will post results irregularly, but probably around once per month.<BR>> Google also archives this information somewhere, but I would rather<BR>> keep track of my external observations.<BR>> <BR>> Cheers,<BR>> James<BR> <br /><hr />Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/' target='_new'>Sign up now.</a></body>
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