-- Words and Such --

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During a recent exhaustive triple-tiered, double-blind-controlled, meta-linguistic, full Fourier-analysis of the major extant Ivory-bill literature, I tallied the following textual word-frequencies in use:

Most Common Words Used By True-believers:

1. Patience
2. Hope
3. Wary
4. Luneau video
5. Encounter
6. Rare
7. Scaling
8. Putative
9. Kents
10. Wingbeats

Most Common Words Used By Cynics:

1. Extinct
2. Proof
3. Not
4. Pileated
5. Bigfoot
6. Photograph
7. Faith-based
8. Inconclusive
9. Blurry
10. Occam's Razor

10 words or phrases thus far notably MISSING from the IBWO literature:

1. que sera sera
2. supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
3. indubitably
4. just kidding
5. %$*&%#*!! friggin' woodpecker (...well, verbally spoken, but not in the printed literature)
6. beam me up Scotty
7. outwit, outplay, outlast
8. liar, liar, pants on fire
9. 6-pack abs
10. new and improved

More words, no doubt, still to come. . . .
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