How linguists are unlocking the meanings of Shakespeare's words using numbers

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Today it would seem odd to describe a flower with the word 'bastard'—why apply a term of personal abuse to a flower? But in Shakespeare's time, 'bastard' was a technical term describing certain plants.

Today it would seem odd to describe a flower with the word"bastard"—why apply a term of personal abuse to a flower? But in Shakespeare's time,"bastard" was a technical term describing certain plants.

Yet, describing any pattern involves numbers. In the first paragraph above, I used the words"normal,""odd" and"unusual" as soft ways of describing frequencies—the numbers of occurrences .of encounters among two or more things. And numbers help us to see things.

The word"bad" is not now associated with the word"success," yet 400 years ago it was, as were other negative words, including"disastrous,""unfortunate,""ill,""unhappy" and"unlucky." Yet corpus techniques highlight the interesting patterns. It turns out that a frequent sense of the humble preposition"by" is religious: to reinforce the sincerity of a statement by invoking the divine .

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