Re: Corpora: tetragram

Markus Schulze (max@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de)
Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:45:22 +0200 (METDST)

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K> In my dictionary, as illogical as it may seem, 'tetragram' is listed (but
K> not 'quadrigram'). And, of course, pentagram (not quinquegram
K> or quintegram, so far as I know) is used.
K> Go figure.

Please note that the terms 'tetragram' (a word consisting of
four letters, from the greek tetragrammaton, refering to the name of
god usually transliterated as YHWH) and 'pentagram' (a geometric
figure) you find listed in your dictionary do not refer to n-grams.

So if a new term has to be coined we might follow logical arguments.

Regards
Markus Schulze
max@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de