Graphical Bush syntax phenomenon
July 3, 2008 24 comments
I’m still not blogging (though see this forum thread), but I do have a pretty picture for you. It’s a cloud of the 150 most common words in Unspeak the book, generated by the fabulous Wordle. Click for a larger image:
What do you think will be the biggest word in the cloud of my next book, readers?
24 comments‘Should be required reading for reporters and editors everywhere’ Slate
‘Compelling... at its satirical best, Unspeak’s implacable rage harks back to the thundering tirades of the Augustan era’ Daily Telegraph
‘Unspeak is in the best sense a stimulus and a provocation. Unmasking unspeak is addictive, and anyone can play.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘I am not entirely sure what Poole is trying to say’ Alastair Campbell
