What does 'Lorem ipsum' mean?

When scouting around online, or tooling through various document review systems, you may have come across text like the below excerpt which seemingly looks like a passage from a Latin classic.

The literal translation of 'Lorem ipsum' in Latin is 'Thank you yourself'. Text which begins with this phrase is actually placeholder text which is used for test purposes in a document review platform or other application. It may be used to demonstrate fonts in a word processing program.

While based on an essay by the Roman philosopher Cicero, Lorem ipsum text usually consists of scrambled Latin words and has no coherent meaning.

Ranks NL

Ranks NL has posted stop word lists in several different languages here: https://www.ranks.nl/stopwords. There are multiple lists in English, including that used by MySQL. Ranks NL is recommended by Relativity for use in a conceptual index. See this guide to Analytics indexes.

Stop words lists are included for many foreign languages.

Noise Word Lists

In its Analytics Guide, Relativity recommends a noise word list posted to a Dutch site Ranks. Ranks has noise word lists available in several different languages, including Japanese, Chinese, French and German.

There are actually several noise word lists for English.

1. A long list of 668 words. It includes less obvious words such as accordance; beginning; looking; predominantly; and usefulness, as well as each single letter in the alphabet.

2. A short list of 174 words.

3. The MySQL stop word list of 543 words that does not include single letter words.

Surprisingly the MySQL and Ranks long list noise word lists are quite different. There are 206 words in the long Ranks list which are not in the MySQL list, and 82 words in the MySQL list omitted from the Ranks long list. As you can see from the lists below, the MySQL list tends to include more contractions, and the Ranks Long List has more common adverbsand misspellings or grammatical mistakes.

Ranks Long List Not in MySQL

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MySQL not Ranks Long List

a's ain't allow allows apart appear appreciate appropriate aren't associated best better c'mon c's cant changes clearly concerning consequently consider considering corresponding couldn't course currently definitely described despite entirely exactly example going greetings hadn't he's hello help here's hopefully i'd i'm ignored inasmuch indicate indicated indicates inner insofar it'd it's let's novel presumably reasonably second secondly sensible serious seriously t's that's there's they'd they're third thorough thoroughly three wasn't we'd we're well weren't what's where's who's will won't wonder wouldn't you'd you're