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ValiantDust@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Ara has twice as many As per consonant. Am and at have the same ratio as banana. But I’ll admit that two letter words is cheating.

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moody@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
But ‘a’ has an even higher ratio.

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- ValiantDust@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Well, you got me there.
  
  ^(Actually the ratio can’t be calculated, since #a/#consonants = 1/0 and you can’t divide by 0 ^and ^that’s ^totally ^why ^I ^didn’t ^mention ^it…)
  
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Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
But is “Ara” an English word? My favorite translation page tells me that the English name of the bird is “macaw”. Still a nice A-ratio, although lower than for banana! :-)

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- ValiantDust@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Wikipedia says so, so it must be true!
  
  I guess we are entering the philosophical level of “what is an English word?” now. I don’t think I’m the right person to judge since I’m neither a native speaker nor a linguist. I’m fine with disqualifying ara.
  
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  - Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    If we allow for scientific names, the winner would probably be “Aa”, the name of a type of plant.
    But I personally would not count them, as not part of everyday language.
    I asked an AI if it could come up with other suggestions. It burned up 5000 tokens while thinking and successfully found “Alabama”.
    So I think banana lost its first place in any case…
    
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