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Topic: wordle
A look at the language used in advertisements for children's toys finds them deeply gendered. Boys toys refer to "battle", "power", "hero" and "action", while girl ads speak of "love", "fun", "magic" and "babies".

How toy ads reinforce gender stereotypes

Advertising

Mar 29, 2011

What would it look like if you made a wordle of each AFL club to include every player who has played 50 or more games? <b>Leigh Josey</b> gave it a go and the results are particularly interesting when you start comparing old and new clubs.

AFL wordle of the week

Links

Nov 30, 2010

How does Tory leader David Cameron's recent big pitch to the nation stand up against the speeches of Gordon Brown, Tony Blair or Margaret Thatcher? What if we compare them... as a wordle!?

Comparing the party leaders’ speeches: in wordle form

News

Oct 09, 2009

<em>Crikey</em> readers examine our worldle word-play, and discuss home births, nuclear power, super funds, Afghanistan and more.

A word on wordles

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

Aug 24, 2009

<em>Crikey</em> readers weigh in on Rudd money, nuclear power and the confusing absence of 'working families' in Kevin Rudd's Wordle.

Rudd’s stimulating package and nuclear power

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

Aug 20, 2009

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Everything opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull has ever said, boiled down into a Wordle. Or, as we prefer to call it, a Turdle. Some of his favourite words: 'billion', 'debt' and 'emissions'.

A turdle: the Malcolm Turnbull Wordle

Federal

Aug 20, 2009

<b>Sean Carmody</b> has compiled 400 pages of text from Kevin Rudd's speeches this year into our favourite of all data visualisations: the wordle. Just like the man himself, it's pretty predictable: "government", "global", "Australia" and "world" all getting a lot of play.

Kevin Rudd: the wordle

Federal

Aug 19, 2009

Nothing quite so illuminating as a word picture. Here's the 2008 budget speech in living colour... and 2009.

2008 to 2009: A tale of two wordles

Federal

May 12, 2009

There are 8 articles in wordle