{"id":44,"date":"2008-11-10T19:08:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T19:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentpressblogs.org\/nspa\/?p=44"},"modified":"2008-11-10T19:08:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T19:08:49","slug":"whats-in-a-high-school-newspapers-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/whats-in-a-high-school-newspapers-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a (high school newspaper&#8217;s) name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10,000 Words.net has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.10000words.net\/2008\/10\/daily-news-tribune-herald-times.html\">list of the most common words in U.S. newspapers&#8217; names<\/a>, complete with a tag cloud that visually represents the names in proportion to their usage.<\/p>\n<p>Given that there likely isn&#8217;t a professional newspaper in the United States with a name like Knightly News or Bear Facts, we couldn&#8217;t resist trying to find out what such a list would look like for the 3,594 high school newspapers in NSPA&#8217;s database. Here, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/tagcrowd.com\">TagCrowd<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wordle.net\">Wordle<\/a>, the same two sites used by 10,000 Words to create their list, are the results:<\/p>\n<pre>\n1. times (129)\n2. news (81)\n3. press (79)\n4. eagle (79)\n5. paw (64)\n6. voice (63)\n7. eye (56)\n8. tiger (56)\n9. chronicle (53)\n10. panther (45)\n11. print (43)\n12. talon (43)\n13. journal (37)\n14. tales (36)\n15. roar (34)\n16. blue (34)\n17. viking (32)\n18. bulldog (33)\n19. echo (32)\n20. trojan (32)\n21. cougar (30)\n22. review (30)\n23. lion (29)\n24. express (29)\n25. cardinal (28)\n26. rampage (28)\n27. tribune (28)\n28. herald (26)\n29. star (26)\n30. pride (25)\n31. advocate (23)\n32. bear (23)\n33. gazette (23)\n34. pirate (23)\n35. post (23)\n36. raider (23)\n37. shield (23)\n38. patriot (22)\n39. scroll (22)\n40. white (22)\n41. falcon (21)\n42. gold (21)\n43. oracle (21)\n44. student (21)\n45. red (20)\n46. smoke (20)\n47. spectrum (20)\n48. talk (20)\n49. tracks (20)\n50. warrior (20)\n<\/pre>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/studentpressblogs.org\/nspa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/nspatagcloud.jpg\" alt=\"nspatagcloud.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"470\" height=\"734\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If you ran the names of all of the students at your school through one of these two sites, it would make an easy, fun feature graphic for your school yearbook or newspaper. That&#8217;s just one of the potential applications of tools like these.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Here, by request, is the list and tag cloud for the 3,872 yearbooks in NSPA&#8217;s database:<\/p>\n<pre>\n1 tiger (51)\n2 legend (44)\n3 panther (43)\n4 talon (42)\n5 eagle (40)\n6 pride (37)\n7 shield (33)\n8 reflections (31)\n9 tales (29)\n10 log (27)\n11 legacy (24)\n12 cardinal (23)\n13 echo (23)\n14 aerie (22)\n15 falcon (22)\n16 odyssey (22)\n17 excalibur (21)\n18 trojan (21)\n19 wildcat (21)\n20 bulldog (20)\n21 lion (20)\n22 cougar (19)\n23 saga (19)\n24 mustang (18)\n25 viking (18)\n26 warrior (17)\n27 golden (16)\n28 paw (16)\n29 spirit (16)\n30 aquila (15)\n31 heritage (15)\n32 hornet (15)\n33 crusader (15)\n34 gold (14)\n35 patriot (14)\n36 trail (14)\n37 valhalla (14)\n38 polaris (13)\n39 prowler (13)\n40 tracks (13)\n41 blue (12)\n42 chieftain (12)\n43 lance (12)\n44 memories (12)\n45 rebel (12)\n46 reflector (12)\n47 accolade (11)\n48 bruin (11)\n49 pioneer (11)\n50 summit (11)\n<\/pre>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/studentpressblogs.org\/nspa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/nspaybtagcloud.jpg\" alt=\"nspaybtagcloud.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"470\" height=\"307\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10,000 Words.net has a list of the most common words in U.S. newspapers&#8217; names, complete with a tag cloud that visually represents the names in proportion to their usage. Given that there likely isn&#8217;t a professional newspaper in the United States with a name like Knightly News or Bear Facts, we couldn&#8217;t resist trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}