The comments in the Linux Kernel are known to have lots of swear words in them, as the "count the F word" page and the other page demonstrate.

So I looked in to the comments of Drupal and sure enough, it was clean; no bad language there. So to practice some of my grep | sed | awk | cut | sort | uniq skills, I made a small script to get the comments out of the source code and sort them. Below you can find the top 100 words used (minus some noise words) in the 5.2 version of Drupal in a cloud. Useful? Not all all. But funny to see IMHO.

access   action   add   any   arguments   array   available   been   book   cache   callback   can   check   code   comment   containing   content   count   create   current   data   database   default   display   dries   drupal   each   element   error   example   false   field   file   files   filter   first   format   forum   from   function   functions   get   given   has   have   hook   id   implementation   information   into   item   key   language   link   links   list   mail   menu   message   module   modules   more   name   need   new   node   number   object   one   only   order   output   page   path   process   profile   query   result   results   return   schema   search   see   select   set   settings   should   site   so   status   string   system   table   text   theme   there   title   translation   true   type   update   use   used   user   users   using   value   values   variable   variables   version   we   when   where   which   will   with   you   your  

note: if you are reading this article via a RSS reader, you will most likely not see the FONT tag. Go to the full article to see the posting as it was meant