Caption on a nature site: "Ruby-_Throat_ Hummingbird" (UNCLASSIFIED)

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Mon Jul 9 20:04:55 UTC 2012


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>
> >  And when I tried combining it with "the Fugitive", I got a
surprisingly
> close competition:
> >
> > "one-armed man" + "the Fugitive":  34,700
> > "one-arm man" + "the Fugitive":  21,700

The latter would also include "man with one arm", bumping its count up.
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