[Air-l] counting google hits

[Nancy Baym]

Innovative use of google hits:

Some one I know uses google when checking spelling and foreign 
language phrasing  -- if a spelling turns up 150 google hits one way, 
and 350,000 the other way, he figures the second spelling was 
correct. Same when he's not sure exactly how a phrase goes in another 
language. More hits = probably grammatical.

Nancy

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