Google Waxing
Warning – this can get addictive.
Just enter two familiar five-letter words into your local Google engine, and see if you can register a minimum of hits. (Yes, I may have too much time on my hands this afternoon….)
But leaving aside Welsh violins, Inuit snow and Pashtu sweetmeats, just opt for common vocab, and only five-letters apiece.
For starters, AXIOM and WHORL yield a staggering 91,800 hits, mainly due to macramé sites, and Ancient Mayan Women. These lost-world artisans are implicated in such sentences as:
Raven says that the third axiom of spinning is “The fewer the number of fibers that … Type C is an ultralightweight whorl with a very small diameter and a
So I tried GAUZE and NUDGE for 16K, predominantly a slew of first-aid suggestions and some wink-wink websites about hospitals.
GAUDY and KRILL? This combo ushers your mouse into a biosphere of florid Antarctic writing with gaudy-eyed albatrosses ogling schools of diaphanous krill etc. Nine thousand purple bits of icecap. (Though several invoke a bloke named R Gaudy, an oceanographer from the 1970s….)
ooohcake.blogspot.com awaits the idle searcher of WHISK and INAPT, along with 3,249 other hodgepodge hotspots with a penchant for messy mixing.
And damnit, the more I write about this Google-whacking challenge, citing random words along the way, the less chance future explorers will find virgin turf. This solemn meditation alone has embedded INUIT and COMBO for posterity. My apologies.
So here’s your quest. Using only common five-letter specimens, can you score a two-figure hit? I’ll keep trying this week and see if I can’t steal the grail before you. STRAY and FORTH.