I installed the desktop version of Spotify, and then decided to uninstall it. While searching for additional Spotify files to move to the trash, I came upon this english_wikipedia.txt file:
Upon further investigation, the file was located in a Google Chrome data subfolder:
I opened the text file. It was 30,000 words, each word on its own line, comprising over 600 pages of text:
The words start off simple — the, of, and, in — and by page 600 are completely obscure and random.
I copied the text and pasted it into Word to remove the paragraph breaks.
I will do more research into this list.
Could it be every word from every wikipedia article I ever read using the Chrome browser?
Or maybe it is every single word in the English language?*
Why was it sorted into this particular order?
What other secrets can be gleaned from this 30,000-word precious list?
Download the reformated wikipedia word list in pdf format
* “If we want to talk about how many words there are in English, there are three key numbers to remember: more than a million total words, about 170,000 words in current use, and 20,000-30,000 words used by each individual person.” from englishlive.ef.com
Maybe it is every word I ever said, Loki-style?
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