{"id":2542,"date":"2006-05-04T23:58:19","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T03:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/04\/best-beat-neat-nest\/"},"modified":"2006-05-04T23:58:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T03:58:19","slug":"best-beat-neat-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/04\/best-beat-neat-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"best beat neat nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beware, nerdiness follows: I generally like my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackberry.com\/products\/blackberry7100\/blackberry7130e.shtml\">BlackBerry 7130e<\/a>, but its multiple letters per key can sometimes give the wrong result. Using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucrel\/bncfreq\/flists.html\">word frequency lists<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk\/\">British National Corpus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sqlite.org\/\">sqlite<\/a>, and way too much programming time, I determined that the key sequence with the most possible word results (81?2) produces <em>best<\/em>, <em>beat<\/em>, <em>neat<\/em> or <em>nest<\/em>. The device itself suggests also <em>brat<\/em> and <em>bray<\/em>, so I should try a longer word list \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in my copious free time, of course.<br \/>\nThe longest (common words in the corpus) that have the same key sequence are <em>employers<\/em> and <em>employees<\/em>, which might briefly cause hilarity in an HR or legal context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware, nerdiness follows: I generally like my BlackBerry 7130e, but its multiple letters per key can sometimes give the wrong result. Using word frequency lists from the British National Corpus, sqlite, and way too much programming time, I determined that the key sequence with the most possible word results (81?2) produces best, beat, neat or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1302,323,614,1066,510,1113,1121,1031,898,1197,779,1132,603,1071,184,217,879,582],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-ack","tag-blackberry","tag-course","tag-eat","tag-free","tag-ice","tag-long","tag-low","tag-national","tag-neat","tag-ogr","tag-seq","tag-sqlite","tag-tim","tag-time","tag-uk","tag-wrong","tag-xt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-F0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}