[Corpora-List] threshold for hapax legomena

Geoffrey Sampson grs2 at sussex.ac.uk
Fri May 25 10:19:51 UTC 2007


Is it over-pedantic to comment that if you are going to call them hapax
legomena, since that means "read once" the limit should be 1?

Geoffrey Sampson

 
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