{"id":137069,"date":"2018-09-06T22:45:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T04:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/whats-that-country-all-about.html"},"modified":"2018-09-07T08:45:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T14:45:04","slug":"whats-that-country-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/whats-that-country-all-about.html","title":{"rendered":"What’s that country all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fun world map with the most common word on their English Wikipedia page assigned to it. Some interesting results:<\/p>\n

The number one word for the US is “War”
\nThe number one word for Canada is “Quebec”
\nThe number one word for Vietnam is “French”
\nThe number one word for Spain is “War”
\nThe number one word for Belgium is “French”
\nThe number one word for Denmark is “Islands”
\nThe number one word for Macedonia is “Greece”
\nThe number one word for Zambia is “Rhodesia”
\nThe number one word for Cyprus is “Turkish”
\nThe number one word for Mongolia is “Population”
\nThe number one word for the UK is “Ireland”<\/p>\n


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\n<\/a>
\nThe Most Frequently Used Word on Each Country’s Wikipedia Page<\/a><\/span>
\nThe United States is “war.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A fun world map with the most common word on their English Wikipedia page assigned to it. Some interesting results: The number one word for the US is “War” The number one word for Canada is “Quebec” The number one word for Vietnam is “French” The number one word for Spain is “War” The number … Continue reading “What’s that country all about?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/countries-wikipedia-word.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4693,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/18\/what_next_freed.html","url_meta":{"origin":137069,"position":0},"title":"What next, “Freedom Fries”?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Jul-03 1:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ever-sensitive to non-French terms slipping into French, the government in Paris is banning e-mail. 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