Wordcount
wordcount.org has an archive of the most frequently used english words. Look at some words I was searching for (1st: rank, 2nd: word):
1073 michael (hey, I’m the winner) 8-)
1169 windows (d’oh)
3474 apple (next to wanting)
3822 opera (next to alarm)
3952 shell (next to climb and humour)
7172 mac (next to moor)
4542 terminal (next to choosing)
13416 console
14032 os
16417 bash (next to shortened and devils) :-)
16784 marianne
26135 sucks
26768 sed
26944 gui
34410 gnome
50838 mutt
66731 vim
82300 mika (I lost)
Number 1: the
Last rank (86800): conquistador
Not in the list of 86800 english words are:
awk, emacs, grep, grml, kde, konqueror, regex, rubeo, slrn, zsh
Conclusion: our outside world isn’t really geeky.