The perils of ngrams (was Usage Ridicule)

[Laurence Horn]

On Mar 31, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> Geoff,
>
> Would you say that gross evidence of trends in Ngram has some
> validity, if one avoids attempted refinements such as British vs.
> American corpuses (corpi?)?
> …
corpora!  (Different declension.)

LH

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