Linguistic dark matter

[Michael Quinion]

Science reports on a massive searchable corpus created from some five
million books, now available on Google: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

One report is here: http://bit.ly/ffQCmR . It quotes the researchers:

"We estimated that 52% of the English lexicon - the majority of words used
in English books - consist of lexical 'dark matter' undocumented in
standard references."



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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
Web: http://www.worldwidewords.org

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