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>I still haven't figured out *what exactly the Corpus is counting.
here's my guess: the total number of words on all of those (figurative) little slips of paper in all of the cubbyholes in all of the editors rolltop desks in all of the many scriptoria, all of which hold the millions and millions of citations for the million English words.
exactly.
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