talk about dialect restriction!

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:35 PM, M Covarrubias <mcovarru at purdue.edu> wrote:
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> On Feb 8, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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>>
>> P.S. Does anyone remember what it's called when you get a single g-
>> hit?
>
> i only know the name for one g-hit for two words not enclosed in
> quotes: googlewhack

For more, see my OUPblog post, "One-Hit Wonders: From Hapax to Googlewhacks":

http://blog.oup.com/2007/10/hapaxify/


--Ben Zimmer

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