> 'Jing-Shin Chang' wrote:
> >
> >
> > This might be a stupid question for native speakers of
> > English. But, after searching for the Internet and
> > looking up my dictionary, I still cannot be sure which
> > of the following terms is best for 4-gram (n-gram with n=4):
> >
> > quadgram
> > quadragram
> > quadrugram
> > ???
>
> 'tetragram' works fine for me (but then, I'm far from being a native
> speaker of English ...)
and pentagram for the 5-gram. But then, what number is bilgram ;-)
Thomas Bilgram
>
> >
> > Any comments !? Thanks !!
> >
>
> hope this helps,
>
> > Shin -^^-
> >
>
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