Two things I just found on the internet:

A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families
This actually reminded me of labs, where similar objects can have different names for different people. In this article (non-academic – a newspaper column kind of article), though, it’s about seven-year-olds who use different phrases for similar pieces of Lego.

I Wordled My Thesis
A Flickr group of Wordle clouds that people made of their thesis. Found it because someone found mine and I was invited to add it.