Which words do you own?–Doors Left Open

[Note: This is part of a continuing series on the actual vocabulary in use in the blogosphere.  Posts on this subject started here and will continue on a somewhat weekly basis.]

This week’s volunteer is Canterbury Soul, a Singaporean, whose blog is called Doors Left Open.  His took a little longer than others I have done because it is such a new blog that I feared the sample would be too small.  I like to take at least 25,000, normally, and I wanted to make sure that the sample was big enough to yield some new words.  As it turned out, that wasn’t a significant problem.  I took a sample of slightly more than 20,000 (a census, really) and got rid of all of the proper names, like I normally do, and ended up with about 19,000 (including the pages of the blog that don’t run chronologically, actually).  But Canterbury Soul still added a hefty 682 new words to the database.

Here’s the resulting cloud composed of words that did not yet show up in any of the seventeen blogs sampled (click to enlarge).

And here’s the same cloud in a font called “Open Mind.”  I couldn’t find any fonts related to doors. . . .

And here’s the Venn diagram I usually make out of these words.  The left lobe consists of words that were new in the sample, that nobody else had used, sized relative to the frequency of use.  The middle lobe consists of words that everybody has used so far, sized according to how much more frequently Canterbury Soul used them in the sample.  And the right lobe consists of words which everyone else sampled thus far has used, but that Canterbury Soul did not, sized by freqeuency of use.

And finally, here is the Haiku generated by my Haiku-generating algorithm, which is improving rapidly, I think.  The words are those of Canterbury Soul, of course.  The arrangement is now almost purely mechanical.

Woeful on the oak,
germs of a paroxysm
recover midfield.

Next Up: Dayngrous Discourse, then Second Effort