a working progress

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Tue May 16 18:50:05 UTC 2006


On May 16, 2006, at 1:09 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> How about these two?
>
> "... small in statue ..."
>
> Only 244 Googlits, one of which is: "It sounded like she'd said,
> 'small in
> statue,' like she wasn't too bright."
>
> ",,, change courses in mid(-)stream ..."
>
> Only twenty Googlits.

neither in the database now (though we have "statue" for "statute").

it's hard to keep up with you people!

arnold

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