[Corpora-List] threshold for hapax legomena

[TadPiotr]

No, it is true, so I will just call them 'rare items'. So what I am really
asking about is a threshhold for rare items. I am sorry for being
under-pedantic.
Tadeusz Piotrowski

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey Sampson [mailto:grs2 at sussex.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:20 PM
> To: TadPiotr
> Cc: corpora at hd.uib.no
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] threshold for hapax legomena
> 
> Is it over-pedantic to comment that if you are going to call 
> them hapax legomena, since that means "read once" the limit 
> should be 1?
> 
> Geoffrey Sampson
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