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What odds would you give that that word has been used more than five times in the history of English literature?
by sethrin 8y ago
What odds would you give that that word has been used more than five times in the history of English literature?
- gwern 8y agoTurns out to be both more common and mean something a little different than I thought: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=quixotry&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cquixotry%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=quixotry&year_... https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=quixotry https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=quixotry
- notahacker 8y agoGoogle Books returns over 8000 results, and some of them aren't even dictionaries!
- sethrin 8y agoThe corpus I searched returned no results, but I'll take the correction: mea culpa.
- krackers 8y agoQuixotic which I think that's derived from isn't that obscure.