[Corpora-List] Query about nomenclature

[John Mckenny]

Dear CORPORA subscribers
Should it be N-gram/Ngram/n-gram/ngram? Is there a consensus about which of
these four to use? Is there a way to measure usage on the Web via
www.webcorp.org.uk <www.webcorp.org.uk>   or other meta-engines?
What comes after bigrams, trigrams?  Is it 4grams, 5grams etc. or could it
be something like quadrigrams, pentagrams, hexagrams? It was pointed out to
me that pentagram is a Satanist symbol.
Advice please. I'll summarize any answers which come to me and not to the
list.
John



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