[Lexicog] frequency counts as a lexicographic measure

[Jim Long]

...and the number of repeats among any set of Google 'hits.'

Jim Long

At 10:49 PM 6/5/2005 +0100, you wrote:
>This raises an interesting issue.
>I feel 873 occurrences in Google is not very great.
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>Two points:
>1. How frequent does a term have to be to merit lexicographic attention?
>Does this make sense in the ever expanding Internet universe?
>2. Given the extensive discussion on the corpora list about the
>unreliability of Google counts, how do we interpret 873 occurrences in
>Google?
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>Thoughts?
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>Christopher Brewster
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>From: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
>[mailto:lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Roberts
>Sent: 05 June 2005 16:26
>To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [Lexicog] opposite of orphan
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>Wayne,
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>... curious that "half-orphan" doesn't appear as either a main entry or a
>sub-entry in my NODE or CHAMBERS English dictionaries. Are there any English
>dictionaries which has "half-orphan" as such? Is it a US coinage? It
>generated 873 hits with Google, so it appears to be a widely used term. But
>it is not half odd that it is not listed in major English dictionaries.
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>John R.
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>From: "Wayne Leman" <wayne_leman at sil.org>
>To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 2:23 PM
>Subject: [Lexicog] opposite of orphan
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> > And, FWIW, John, a child who has lost one parent through death is a half
> > orphan.
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> >> In most of the English dictionaries I have looked at *orphan* means 'a
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> >> who has lost both (biological) parents through death'.
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