Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Googlewhacking is the new Hapax Legomenon

Hapax legomenon: a word or form occurring only once in a document or corpus [m-w]
Googlewhack:
a Google search query consisting of two words, that returns a single result

They're the same thing!

Turns out that I'm not the first to think of this: hapax legomenon is referenced on Googlewhack's wikipedia page.

Doesn't this make you nostalgic for Latin literary devices?