[Sigwac] Re: Sigwac Digest, Vol 18, Issue 1

[Bill Fletcher]

Hi all,

Footnote to the trivia and a burning question.

Following up on Niels' observation I checked Google without "the" and 
tried out Live Search and Yahoo.  Counts are 96, 18,900 and 737 
respectively.  Either LS has a very long memory or a very redundant index.

In this context does "hickey" mean "Pickel" or "Knutschfleck"?  (I know 
it in both meanings in American English.)

Questions about the G1T data like the low counts for "won't" discussed 
last week on the Corpora list may cast on the reliability of the 
frequency data, but I have found it useful as one source of examples 
words formed with "neomorphemes".  Since it consists of aggregated but 
unnormalized data, it also gives an indication of the range of hybrid 
encodings (e.g. Mac or other encodings masquerading as ISO 8859-1), 
which has helped me salvage a lot of data I trawled together.

Regards,
Bill