At the time, people were unfamiliar with the concept of a computer password, which required structuring a scene early in the film in which the main character, played by Matthew Broderick, sneaks into his high-school principal's office to check out a piece of paper showing a list of random words.
In one of several tests, participants heard a list of 15 words and were asked to repeat them back.
For the vocabulary portion Katzman and colleague Adam Robinson performed a statistical analysis of past tests and honed a list of only 200 words to drill kids.
At the time, users typed in a few words and got a list of thousands of Web sites using those words, but most of the results were irrelevant.
Each year, the Detroit-based university releases a list of the most unused words in the English language.
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The French culture ministry has a list of "banned" words on its website, including blog and email.
The 2013 list included a disproportionate set of vowel-laden words including buncombe, cerulean, dragoon, fantods, chelonian, mawkish, natter, persiflage, troglodyte and winkle.
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With his words this morning, the President joined a list of great American leaders who have praised these central American virtues and ideals to our culture and our nation.
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The difference is that existing programs require the user to correct each word individually from a drop-down list of alternatives, or else to retype or reutter the words.
Yet what no list of words can get at is the new business insincerity: a phoney upping of the emotional ante.
Instead of Cloud Atlas, the second-biggest turkey on our list is A Thousand Words, the latest money-loser from Eddie Murphy.
"The thing that struck me when I put together this list was that 90% of the top 100 words were one syllable, and that a large proportion were actually from Old English, meaning the basic words we use all the time in basic sentences are from before the Norman Conquest, " he said.
"I am, as you can imagine, very distressed and upset by the news that my details have been found on Mulcaire's list and would like to thank everyone for their kind words of support, " she said in a statement.
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