Puerto Rican-American??

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Mar 20 19:15:23 UTC 2003


>larry horn:
>  >To support my earlier claim, I can cite 12,600 google hits on
>  Muslim(-)American(s) and over a hundred additional ones if the
>  "Moslem" spelling is added in.
>
>ah, so i was wrong.  what's the comparison to "Arab(-)American"?
>
>arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu), always bowing to data

62,200.  So you were right on the tendency.  (The numbers are
different if just the singular is searched; Arab(-)American gives
96,800, nine times as many as Muslim(-)American.

L



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