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From the Ted Talk by Rives: A mockingbird remix of TED2006

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

It is the voice of life that calls us to come and learn. When all the little mockingbirds fly away, they're going to sound like the last four days. I will get uptown gurus, dwwonton teachers, broke-ass artists and delares, and Filipino preachers, leaf blowers, bartenders, boob-job doctors, hooligans, garbage men, your local Congressmen in the spotlight, guys in the overhead helicopters. Everybody gets hraed. Everybody gets this one, honest mockingbird as a wtienss. And I'm on this. I'm on this 'til the whole thing spreads, with chat romos and copycats and moms maybe tucking kids into bed siginng, "Hush, little baby, don't say a word. Wait for the man with the mcnrkogiibd."

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

It is the voice of life that calls us to come and learn. When all the little mockingbirds fly away, they're going to sound like the last four days. I will get uptown gurus, ________ teachers, broke-ass artists and _______, and Filipino preachers, leaf blowers, bartenders, boob-job doctors, hooligans, garbage men, your local Congressmen in the spotlight, guys in the overhead helicopters. Everybody gets _____. Everybody gets this one, honest mockingbird as a _______. And I'm on this. I'm on this 'til the whole thing spreads, with chat _____ and copycats and moms maybe tucking kids into bed _______, "Hush, little baby, don't say a word. Wait for the man with the ___________."

Solution


  1. dealers
  2. witness
  3. rooms
  4. downtown
  5. mockingbird
  6. heard
  7. singing

Original Text


(Laughter)

It is the voice of life that calls us to come and learn. When all the little mockingbirds fly away, they're going to sound like the last four days. I will get uptown gurus, downtown teachers, broke-ass artists and dealers, and Filipino preachers, leaf blowers, bartenders, boob-job doctors, hooligans, garbage men, your local Congressmen in the spotlight, guys in the overhead helicopters. Everybody gets heard. Everybody gets this one, honest mockingbird as a witness. And I'm on this. I'm on this 'til the whole thing spreads, with chat rooms and copycats and moms maybe tucking kids into bed singing, "Hush, little baby, don't say a word. Wait for the man with the mockingbird."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
build strong 2


Important Words


  1. artists
  2. baby
  3. bartenders
  4. bed
  5. blowers
  6. calls
  7. chat
  8. congressmen
  9. copycats
  10. days
  11. dealers
  12. doctors
  13. downtown
  14. filipino
  15. fly
  16. garbage
  17. gurus
  18. guys
  19. heard
  20. helicopters
  21. honest
  22. hooligans
  23. kids
  24. laughter
  25. leaf
  26. learn
  27. life
  28. local
  29. man
  30. men
  31. mockingbird
  32. mockingbirds
  33. moms
  34. overhead
  35. preachers
  36. rooms
  37. singing
  38. sound
  39. spotlight
  40. spreads
  41. teachers
  42. tucking
  43. uptown
  44. voice
  45. wait
  46. witness
  47. word