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Page 182
... types for the " class " of surnames is the " population . " This is not true for the class forenames , as many people have more than one forename . Hence the sum of tokens for all types of male and female forenames is greater than the ...
... types for the " class " of surnames is the " population . " This is not true for the class forenames , as many people have more than one forename . Hence the sum of tokens for all types of male and female forenames is greater than the ...
Page 193
... types cover over 64 % of the population , 100 types cover over 93 % , and 1000 types almost 98 % . The 1000 forenames types represent about 1.19 % of the forenames types ; the converse is that the remaining 98.81 % of types cover just 2 ...
... types cover over 64 % of the population , 100 types cover over 93 % , and 1000 types almost 98 % . The 1000 forenames types represent about 1.19 % of the forenames types ; the converse is that the remaining 98.81 % of types cover just 2 ...
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... types were found in a national database of over 871,000 surname types . The count was constrained to 20,000 , but there are probably at least as many errors again to be counted . Over 60 percent of these typographical errors had a count ...
... types were found in a national database of over 871,000 surname types . The count was constrained to 20,000 , but there are probably at least as many errors again to be counted . Over 60 percent of these typographical errors had a count ...
Contents
American Indian placenames in the United States | 15 |
the derivation and referent of an old puzzle | 39 |
Placenames derived from Chinook Jargon in the state | 57 |
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