Mexican Chocolate & Molinillo (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> Subject: Mexican Chocolate & Molinillo
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> MOLINILLO + CHOCOLATE--48,100 Google hits MOLINET +
> CHOCOLATE--1.240 Google hits MOULINET + CHOCOLATE--2,140
> Google hits ...
> ...
> The Google hits seem to justify an OED entry for "molinillo."
> ...
>

If they were all English language uses, perhaps so.  But did you get a
sense of how many were from Spanish language web pages?

I presume that Google would return English pages with a higher priority
than Spanish, so the fact that the first few pages of listings are
English may not be relevant.
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