[Corpora-List] Wonky ngrams

Fri Jan 4 12:33:26 UTC 2013

Consider the case in which your entire corpus consists of a single sentence:

"In spite of my disdain for the title I really liked the book."

The trigram frequency of "In spite of" is 1/11, while the bigram 
frequency of "In spite" is somewhat lower, 1/12.

-Steve Grimes

On 1/4/2013 7:04 AM, Brett Reynolds wrote:
> Can anyone explain why "in spite of" would have a higher frequency than
> "in spite" in the following graph from Google ngrams?
> http://goo.gl/u7J3F
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Stephen Grimes, Ph.D.
Linguistic Data Consortium
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