Improbable pronunciation

"By the way, from a linguistic point of view it looks like Proof's big mistake was allowing himself to be pronounced upon, and if I were you, I'd never let anyone pronounce you anything. Based on Google counts, you're over 5000 times more likely to be pronounced dead than pronounced alive. More optimistically, you have a better than 1 in 100 chance of being pronounced husband and wife rather than dead. Can marriage really merit such a risk?"
(David Beaver, Language Log)

exercise for the reader: work out a probabilistic account for this delightful fallacy.