{"id":1388,"date":"2011-08-10T22:11:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T02:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2011-08-10T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T02:13:00","slug":"how-many-unique-words-are-in-awolnations-sail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/how-many-unique-words-are-in-awolnations-sail\/","title":{"rendered":"How many unique words are in AWOLNATION’s “Sail!”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many have heard me complain that I’m not a fan of AWOLNATION’s hit song “Sail!”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One thing I often cite is how few unique words are in the song. I finally ran the numbers:<\/p>\n

AWOLNATION’s four minute and twenty seconds song “Sail” has 85 words, but, only 36 of those words are unique!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s how those 36 words break down:<\/p>\n

sail! 12<\/div>\n
my 7<\/div>\n
it 6<\/div>\n
on 5<\/div>\n
blame 5<\/div>\n
add 4<\/div>\n
baby 4<\/div>\n
maybe 4<\/div>\n
lalalalala 4<\/div>\n
i 3<\/div>\n
i’m 2<\/div>\n
is 2<\/div>\n
should 2<\/div>\n
this 2<\/div>\n
how 2<\/div>\n
myself 1<\/div>\n
help 1<\/div>\n
kill 1<\/div>\n
different 1<\/div>\n
listening 1<\/div>\n
not 1<\/div>\n
breed 1<\/div>\n
for 1<\/div>\n
a 1<\/div>\n
an 1<\/div>\n
in 1<\/div>\n
made 1<\/div>\n
love 1<\/div>\n
show 1<\/div>\n
mind 1<\/div>\n
because 1<\/div>\n
pride 1<\/div>\n
sick 1<\/div>\n
cries 1<\/div>\n
angel 1<\/div>\n
cry 1<\/div>\n

Here’s the PHP script I used to do the analysis http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/~mclare\/blog\/sail.phps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many have heard me complain that I’m not a fan of AWOLNATION’s hit song “Sail!”. One thing I often cite is how few unique words are in the song. I finally ran the numbers: AWOLNATION’s four minute and twenty seconds song “Sail” has 85 words, but, only 36 of those words are unique! Here’s how… Continue Reading How many unique words are in AWOLNATION’s “Sail!”?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,1,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}