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From the Ted Talk by Adam Spencer: Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers

Unscramble the Blue Letters

I was asked in an interview last year in my capacity as a lower-case "c" celebrity in Australia, "What was your highlight of 2012?" People were expecting me to talk about my boleved Sydney Swans ftolaobl team. In our beautiful, indigenous sport of Australian football, they won the equivalent of the Super Bowl. I was there. It was the most emotional, einctxig day. It wasn't my hghiilght of 2012. peploe thought it might have been an interview I'd done on my show. It might have been a politician. It might have been a breakthrough. It might have been a book I read, the arts. No, no, no. It might have been something my two goorgeus daughters had done. No, it wasn't. The highlight of 2012, so clearly, was the discovery of the hggis boson. Give it up for the fundamental particle that bequeaths all other fundamental pliercats their mass.

Open Cloze

I was asked in an interview last year in my capacity as a lower-case "c" celebrity in Australia, "What was your highlight of 2012?" People were expecting me to talk about my _______ Sydney Swans ________ team. In our beautiful, indigenous sport of Australian football, they won the equivalent of the Super Bowl. I was there. It was the most emotional, ________ day. It wasn't my _________ of 2012. ______ thought it might have been an interview I'd done on my show. It might have been a politician. It might have been a breakthrough. It might have been a book I read, the arts. No, no, no. It might have been something my two ________ daughters had done. No, it wasn't. The highlight of 2012, so clearly, was the discovery of the _____ boson. Give it up for the fundamental particle that bequeaths all other fundamental _________ their mass.

Solution

  1. exciting
  2. gorgeous
  3. highlight
  4. people
  5. football
  6. beloved
  7. particles
  8. higgs

Original Text

I was asked in an interview last year in my capacity as a lower-case "c" celebrity in Australia, "What was your highlight of 2012?" People were expecting me to talk about my beloved Sydney Swans football team. In our beautiful, indigenous sport of Australian football, they won the equivalent of the Super Bowl. I was there. It was the most emotional, exciting day. It wasn't my highlight of 2012. People thought it might have been an interview I'd done on my show. It might have been a politician. It might have been a breakthrough. It might have been a book I read, the arts. No, no, no. It might have been something my two gorgeous daughters had done. No, it wasn't. The highlight of 2012, so clearly, was the discovery of the Higgs boson. Give it up for the fundamental particle that bequeaths all other fundamental particles their mass.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
prime number 7
prime numbers 6
frank nelson 4
nelson cole 4
largest prime 4
harry potter 4
breakfast radio 3
curtis cooper 3
square peg 2
biggest prime 2
massive primes 2
large prime 2
radio show 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
frank nelson cole 4
large prime numbers 2
largest prime number 2

Important Words

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