H is for hapax legomenon (I'm a lasagna boy!)

April 11, 2005

H is for hapax legomenon

Amazon now produces a concordance for each book for which it has digitized content; it also has a short list of "statistically improbable phrases", which amount to hapax legomena. Amusingly, the wikipedia entry suggests that a googlewhack is the modern-day equivalent.

Posted to lingo by salim at 02:18 PM

eating pie I am a lasagna boy

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