April 11, 2005

H is for hapax legomenon

Amazon now produces a concordance for each book for which it has digitized content; it also has a short list of "statistically improbable phrases", which amount to hapax legomena. Amusingly, the wikipedia entry suggests that a googlewhack is the modern-day equivalent.

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Blanxart xocolata negra

Liz sent a bar of the most delicious chocolate from the city that makes the most fantastic chocolates. A bar of Blanxart xocolata negra came in the post, and I carried it with me everywhere. At the café, the man sitting at the adjacent table asked if the beautiful wrapper was letterpress; I don't know, but it certainly has that look. Yum. And yum.

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