English words are connected by three degrees of separation, following links in a thesaurus [via pop-up toaster]. The original paper has more to say: "We study this issue quantitatively, by mapping out the conceptual network of the English language, with the connections being defined by the entries in a Thesaurus dictionary" (Topology of the conceptual network of language). It's a small world!
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