12-25-2015, 05:13 AM
(12-25-2015, 02:23 AM)Erthona Wrote: Correlation or coincidence?
"Ray of Christmas " = 27,900
"Christmas wanker" = 27,900
I sez correlation!
Billy, as usual, was wanking around with the stats.
How could you ever doubt that in all things wank, there can be only one.
The original was:
"Christmas haggis" = 584,000
"Christmas billy" = 27,900
"Christmas wanker" = 27,900
The actual count for the ray one is:
"Ray of Christmas " = 122,000 results
(12-25-2015, 05:02 AM)Quixilated Wrote: I always say presents for Birthday and gifts for Christmas, but didn't realize that's what I was doing until this thread. Never had negative or positive connotations associated with either. Now I am wondering if I have accidentally been offending people by using the "wrong" one at the wrong time.
Yeah, makes you wonder. I always used 'presents' for solid objects and 'gifts' for ephemeral things.
But you can see from the 'Birthday' stats, it's evenly split:
"Birthday present" = 15.0 million
"Birthday gift" = 14.7 million
What surprised me was how uneven the Christmas one was.
I guess one really should use 'gift' for things xmas.
"Christmas present" = 22.2 million ("Xmas present" = 1.0 million)
"Christmas gift" = 64.5 million ("Xmas gift" = 1.6 million)
Ray
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