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Having studied languages, linguistics and computing, Dom Glennon now works as a senior systems developer for Cambridge Dictionaries. Each month, he calculates and comments on the top 20 most clicked-on entries on Cambridge Dictionaries Online.

Our users seem intent on keeping advice at the top spot until the end of time, but the story of the month comes from two new entries at the lower reaches of the 20: propose and marriage, obviously searched for by women planning to propose to their partners on February 29th, in accordance with the great Leap Year tradition.

1 advice (1) 11 assess (13)
2 liaise (2) 12 ubiquitous (-)
3 effect (6) 13 analyse (15)
4 comply (5) 14 commit (14)
5 be up to something (3) 15 acquire 10)
6 regard (7) 16 propose (-)
7 paradigm (4) 17 emphasize (-)
8 idiom (8) 18 intend (16)
9 endeavour (9) 19 affect (17)
10 appreciate (12) 20 marriage (-)

This list shows the 20 entries that were clicked on most frequently in February 2004. The figures in brackets show the word's position in last month's top 20.



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