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> The text of Etymonline is built entirely from print sources, and is done entirely by human beings. Ngrams are not. I'm confused about this part actually. I a
by thrdbndndn 3y ago
> The text of Etymonline is built entirely from print sources, and is done entirely by human beings. Ngrams are not.
I'm confused about this part actually. I assume by "entirely from print sources" it means it does not include digital sources? That doesn't sound very relevant to the issues mentioned in the article though: unless it uses the "complete" set of all print source, it totally could have the same skewed-dataset issues too; and humans can make the same mistake as OCR does.
- sudobash1 3y agoEtymonline compiles the information on etymology and historical usage from printed books (eg the Oxford English Dictionary). That is what is being referred to here. They are not having humans tally up different words from books. That data is entirely from ngrams.