Countries’ Freedom vs. Countries’ Names:

A fabulous item from Social Science++ (Brendan O’Connor); here’s the graphic, but read the whole post:

Reminds me of my rule of thumb: If a discipline has the term “science” in it, it’s not much of a science. No mathematicians would say they’re students of “mathematics science.”

Thanks to Language Log for the pointer.

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