I'd've

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:06 AM +0000 8/3/09, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>What's a "raw g-hit"?

Google hits, the number reported by google in the upper right corner,
without inspection for overlaps and repetitions.

>How does one evaluate it?  Is 137,000 raw g-hits a lot?

It's significantly more than zero.  Hits on the first several pages
all seem genuine, and distinct.  This indicates that the contraction
is question is widely used, especially since each search is conducted
on a separate variant.

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>One of the lowest frequency words in the British National Corpus of
>100M hits is "abided" with only 6 hits  according to
>ftp://ftp.itri.bton.ac.uk/bnc/all.num.o5  How many raw g-hits does
>"abided" get?

435,000.  You can discover this on your own by clicking on
"www.google.com" and putting in [abided], without the brackets.

LH

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>>  Sender: American Dialect Society
>>  Poster: Laurence Horn
>>  Subject: Re: I'd've
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>>  At 2:35 AM +0000 7/31/09, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>>>See "I'd've" below. I haven't seen a double apostrophe before.
>>
>>  Sheltered life! I've seen many, in particular involving variants of
>>  this one ("she'd've", "they'd've", etc.). There are 137,000 raw
>>  g-hits for "I'd've".
>>
>>  LH
>>
>>>
>>>I have taught a lot of subjects and activities over the years and in
>>>each case had a level of expertise higher than my students. I knew
>>>the subject or sport, was more experienced in it, was able to model
>>>and participate on a level higher than the students. I'd be able to
>>>win a game (Well, I'd've won a few years back. Now I get awfully
>>>tired.)
>>>
>>>
>>>Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>>>see truespel.com
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