Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Sneaked vs. Snuck: What Ngram Tells Us
By Betty Azar
Author, Azar Grammar Series
betty@azargrammar.com
I have just discovered an online tool that I think will be fun and useful for all of us who are fascinated by English language usage. It is Google Labs Ngram Viewer, released by Google in December, 2010.
The Ngram Viewer graphs usage frequency from 1800 to 2000, based on the corpus of millions of books that Google has thus far scanned.
The first word I looked up was snuck. Through my years of writing textbooks, I debated whether to include snuck in an advanced-level reference chart of irregular
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Tags: Betty Azar, corpus, language change, usage, vocabulary
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