Click, or Klick?

[psychonaut]

@pulykamell

Can’t you at least ballpark it for estimation, by searching on, say “click means kilometer” and “klick means kilometer” and see what you get? I get 3 Google entries for the first, 56 for the latter? Then “click means kilometre” and “klick means” kilometre" returns 4 for the first, and 3 for the latter. Then “click stands for kilometer” and “klick stands for kilometre” gives me 1 and 3, respectively. I don’t necessarily mean those choices specifically, but something of that nature, where you’re only going to catch a small percentage of “clicks” and “klicks” that mean kilometer, but (hopefully, and this is the big assumption it hangs on) a representative sample of the greater usage of the words?

If you take the entirety of Google’s index to be a representative sample of English, sure. But the problem is that it’s not, and when you’re dealing with differences in frequencies as low as 1 or 2 hits among several billion, comparing them isn’t going to yield statistically meaningful results anyway.