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Jamie Keddie

Purses & wallets: corpus sex differences

May 18, 2009

In the English class, teachers can make use of internet search engines to answer students’ linguistic queries such as:
“Which is more common – look after yourself or take care of yourself?”
In the following pie chart, figures refer to the number of Google hits obtained by running a web search of these two items:
Of course, the [...]

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