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Old 27-06-2003, 05:32 PM
P van Rijckevorsel
 
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Default Tamarisk: origin of "salt cedar"

Mike Lyle schreef
Meanwhile, Google has
17,200 *redcedar*, of which many are web addresses, and 890,000 *red
cedar*. Google counts aren't the strongest evidence, of course; but
they do give an impression of what people are typing.


+ + +
Caution here!
- redcedar will generate only hits for "redcedar"
- while "red cedar" will present a cross-section of the sites using "cedar"
(4.000.000) and those using "red" (54.000.000). To draw any kind of
conclusion requires lots (and lots) of handwork or the application of
statistics.

Just to give an indication:
+ cedar just the color
red 870.000 54.000.000
blue 200.000 2.000.000
white 1.240.000 61.000.000
black 810.000 84.000.000

I am a little dubious about "blue cedar", but fairly sure there is no such
thing as "black cedar" and look: 810.000 hits anyway.
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