BNL2709 - the essence of English » lexical chunks http://bnl2709.edublogs.org The essential 2,709 words that make up over 90% of the running words in any text. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:32:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 “keep a blog” or “have a blog” http://bnl2709.edublogs.org/2008/08/15/keep-a-blog-or-have-a-blog/ http://bnl2709.edublogs.org/2008/08/15/keep-a-blog-or-have-a-blog/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:32:05 +0000 bnl2709 http://bnl2709.edublogs.org/?p=14 Ever wonder about which phrase or word is more commonly used? Let GOOGLEFIGHT sort it out for you.

See which is the most common: “keep a blog” or “have a blog”.

Neat, eh? Has some interesting applications with students.

NOTE: If you compare phrases that have different numbers of words, then you will need to put the phrases in quotes.  Thanks to Gavin Dudeney for this little gem.

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