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The size of things: an ngram experiment

colin_morris · published 30 October 2017

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon

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https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/pie-a-la-mcdermott-mode-or-how-to-know-when-dessert-is-done/2012/07/09/gJQAZnp9aW_story.html

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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pencil

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https://books.google.ca/books?id=RCA4AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22of%20cards%22&pg=PA557

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https://archive.org/details/aglossaryobscur00mackgoog

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https://github.com/colinmorris/size-of-an-x

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https://github.com/colinmorris/size-of-an-x/blob/master/sizeofthings.csv

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https://books.google.com/ngrams/datasets

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https://acerbialberto.com/2013/04/14/normalisation-biases-in-google-ngram/

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http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0137041

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https://www.google.ca/search?q=%22size+of+a+fine+cauliflower%22&tbm=bks&lr=lang_en&gws_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=dNv0WbL9IKyPjwSFlJHYCw

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_from_Italy

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