Google hits for Athabaskan spellings

[Ryan Denzer-King]

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.

 

Ryan Denzer-King
 
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:45:29 -1000
> From: jcrippen at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Google hits for Athabaskan spellings
> To: ATHAPBASCKAN-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> 
> I've decided to start chronicling the numbers of Google hits for the
> different spellings of "Athabaskan". Results below are for google.com
> (USA) and google.ca (Canada). The "dym" is Google's "Did you mean"
> suggestion.
> 
> google.com
> Athabaskan: 150,000
> Athabascan: 149,000
> Athapaskan: 107,000 (dym: Athabaskan)
> Athapascan: 206,000 (dym: Athabascan)
> 
> google.ca
> Athabaskan: 149,000
> Athabascan: 149,000
> Athapaskan: 107,000 (dym: Athabaskan)
> Athapascan: 207,000 (dym: Athabascan)
> 
> These results are of course skewed and unreliable for all sorts of
> reasons. I have no idea how different hits are selected for the two
> countries. The results also include things that are only tangentially
> related, like the HMCS Athabaskan, the Athabasca(n) Oil Sands, the
> lake, various company names, and who knows what else. But they're
> interesting nonetheless.
> 
> I will post results irregularly, but probably around once per month.
> Google also archives this information somewhere, but I would rather
> keep track of my external observations.
> 
> Cheers,
> James
 		 	   		  
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