Fun with Phrases: "based on the real-life story"

Sat Mar 9 05:32:29 UTC 2013

Garson wrote
>> Here is "real life story" versus "true life story" in the Ngram
>> viewer. Will one form dominate?
>>
>> http://bit.ly/WyDlMy

Ben Zimmer wrote:
> Don't forget that hyphens are tokenized on the Ngram Viewer. So the
> form that has come to dominate is "real-life story":
>
> http://goo.gl/AFdxX

Thanks, Ben. Glad that the database of the Ngram Viewer attempts to
retain information about hyphens. The graph you constructed is
certainly more illuminating. Thanks also for the link you gave to your
article "Emoticons at 30 (Or Is It 45? Or 125? Or 131?)" on another
thread.

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/emoticons-at-30-or-is-it-45-or-125-or-131/

Garson

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