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There is always Project Gutenberg [1]. I suppose there may be pros and cons to each, with Project Gutenberg being generally older books. [1]. https://www.gut
by JoeDaDude 6y ago
There is always Project Gutenberg [1]. I suppose there may be pros and cons to each, with Project Gutenberg being generally older books.
[1]. https://www.gutenberg.org/ https://www.gutenberg.org/
Fun trivia: I once took an NLP class and discovered that I could predict whether a text was written by Edgar Allan Poe or H. G. Wells with ~86% accuracy based on the presence of one word: "whereupon". The language had changed enough in 60 years such that that single word was no longer used.
- pavlov 6y agoI’ve noticed that “presently” (in the meaning “soon”) is one such indicator for post-WWII English. British novels written in the 1950s consistently use “presently” to indicate a short passage of time. In the following decades it seems to have been removed from editors’ style guides and replaced mostly by plain old “soon”.
- MivLives 6y agoWonder what other words that could be found that do something similar.
- milquetoastaf 6y agoYou may enjoy this article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon