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#wordusage

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Zen Zero ☯️ ◯<p>Any linguists out there? I'm interested in usage patterns for "scaredy cat" vs "fraidy cat". Surprisingly little information online (that I could find, anyways).</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguists</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WordUsage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordUsage</span></a></p>
Hobson Lane<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://zirk.us/@grammargirl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>grammargirl</span></a></span> I don't keep up with style guides so your post made me second guess my gut. My brain says that the word most likely to follow "uppercase" is "characters" (I read Python all day long). So I checked the stats in English books and the rank order is:</p><p>1. ... letters<br>2. ... characters<br>3. ... words<br>4. ... titles<br>5. ... names<br>(singular nouns rank the same, right after each plural noun)</p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=uppercase+letter,uppercase+letters,uppercase+character,uppercase+word,uppercase+words,uppercase+titles,uppercase+names&amp;year_start=1920&amp;year_end=2019&amp;corpus=en-2019&amp;smoothing=3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books.google.com/ngrams/graph?</span><span class="invisible">content=uppercase+letter,uppercase+letters,uppercase+character,uppercase+word,uppercase+words,uppercase+titles,uppercase+names&amp;year_start=1920&amp;year_end=2019&amp;corpus=en-2019&amp;smoothing=3</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ComputationalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputationalLinguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WordUsage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordUsage</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Statistics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a></p>
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