[Corpora-List] Request

[Alon Lischinsky]

Hi Saman,

> Where does "grams" in "n-grams" come from?

< Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, "letter; something written"), used
both in Classical derivations (anagram, epigram, program) and in new
coinages (telegram). The specific sense of "word consisting of N
characters" is slightly post-Classical, first attested in monogram (<
Latin monogrammum < Byzantine Greek μονόγραμμον), but productive in
English: bigram, trigram, tetragram (~=tetragrammaton), pentagram,
etc.

> How is "BP" calculated in "n-grams"?

I don't know what you mean by BP in this context

Alon

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