“As of June 29th, 2001, there were approximately 816,119 words in the English language. Assuming that, by that particular date, Robert Pollard had written about 6,000 songs, each one using approximately 10 words that didn't appear in other songs, that means that almost one tenth of all the words in the English language have appeared somewhere in a Bob Pollard song. Considering that a lot of musicia”