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AltaVista reveals the following word count on the Web:

beep:      625,434
beeep:      12,191
beeeep:      2,962
beeeeep:     1,264
beeeeeep:      931
beeeeeeep:     453
beeeeeeeep:    866
beeeeeeeeep:   273
beeeeeeeeeep:  562
beeeeeeeeeeep: 131

What I found most intriguing is the surprisingly low count for beeeeeeeeep (9 E’s). I can’t imagine why this is the case.

So I repeated the search with variants of the word “bleep” and got these results:

bleep:     51,388
bleeep:       328
bleeeep:      170
bleeeeep:      95
bleeeeeep:     48
bleeeeeeep:    36
bleeeeeeeep:   19
bleeeeeeeeep:  33
bleeeeeeeeeep: 14
bleeeeeeeeeeep: 7

Look at that — there’s a SPIKE at the 9 E variant!!!

What could possibly account for this?

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