[Corpora-List] Query about nomenclature

John F. Sowa sowa at bestweb.net
Thu Mar 10 01:43:06 UTC 2005


Damon Davison's use of Google inspired me to try
a variation.  I just typed three queries and
got the following number of hits:

Search string            Hits
-------------           ------
ngram                   21,100

ngram not perl             540

n-gram                  85,700

This seems to provide overwhelming evidence for
a hyphen between "n" and "gram".  Since Google
doesn't distinguish capitals, that leaves the
capitalization question unresolved.

John Sowa



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