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| Jun 8, 2019 at 22:43 | comment | added | jlawler | What's interesting about the OED is that, while any given entry has only a small number of example sentences, one can get complete lists of every use of a particular word in all the examples. There are several million examples, so there tend to be several thousand sentences for any English word. Every English syntactic construction possible is in those examples. I once wrote a paper about the remain to be seen construction, and got over 6000 OED sentences with remain in them. | |
| May 31, 2019 at 13:10 | history | edited | Laurel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2019 at 22:33 | comment | added | vectory | I'm asking specifically because gbooks is not satisfying, not the least because OCR fails for old books. I take it that "you don't ever really know for certain" counts for lost copies, as well as otherwise unread/not-scanned books. "hundreds of volunteers" pale in comparison to the amount of available books. | |
| Feb 24, 2019 at 20:12 | history | answered | Laurel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |