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2019 year-end Top Ten Lyrics in Review

March 31, 2020 by Lamont Antieau in lyric analysis, review

An analysis of lyrics from Billboard’s year-end top ten for the year 2019

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March 31, 2020 /Lamont Antieau
2019 lyrics in review, billboard year-end top ten (1951-2019)
lyric analysis, review
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2018 year-end Top Ten lyrics in review

June 18, 2019 by Lamont Antieau in lyric analysis, review, variation in lyrics

An analysis of lyrics from the year-end Billboard Top Ten for 2018

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June 18, 2019 /Lamont Antieau
2018 lyrics in review
lyric analysis, review, variation in lyrics
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2017 year-end Top Ten lyrics in review

May 16, 2019 by Lamont Antieau in corpus linguistics, lexical variation, review, variation in lyrics

A review of song lyrics from year-end Top Ten Billboard charts from 2017

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May 16, 2019 /Lamont Antieau
2017 lyrics in review
corpus linguistics, lexical variation, review, variation in lyrics
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Word searches

January 24, 2017 by Lamont Antieau in review

A compilation of posts that include word searches

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January 24, 2017 /Lamont Antieau
word searches
review
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Reddit Ngram Viewer review →

January 05, 2016 by Lamont Antieau in review, corpus analysis

Reddit Ngram Viewer review, which consists of using the tool to analyze holiday variants that occur in the Reddit corpus

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January 05, 2016 /Lamont Antieau
holidays in reddit, corpus analysis, corpus tools, #halloween
review, corpus analysis
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