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Aberrant Adjectives in 19th Century Novels


By mjockers@stanfo... - Posted on 18 September 2008

I created the visualization below using Many Eyes and a data set derived from part-of-speech tagged novels from 19th century Britain. Found here are the 100 most "aberrant adjectives." Aberrant here is determined by selecting those words that have the greatest amount of usage deviation (measured by relative frequency) over a 13 decade time period. To qualify a word must also appear in every decade.