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the running shoe debate

April 08, 2016 by Lamont Antieau in corpus dialectology

Terms for "running shoes" in several corpora, particularly Twitter

 

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April 08, 2016 /Lamont Antieau
running shoes, tennis shoes, twitter, sneakers, pop music, harvard dialect survey, linguistic atlas of the middle rockies, rocky mountain english
corpus dialectology
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Eggcorns in Top 10 lyrics

November 22, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in corpus analysis, music video essay

A presentation of eggcorns found in a collection of lyrics from American pop music (1951-2014), with accompanying videos

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November 22, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
eggcorns in pop music, pop music
corpus analysis, music video essay
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