Corpora: quadgram

Eleanor Batchelder (eleanor@roz.hunter.cuny.edu)
Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:14:02 -0400 (EDT)

As a native speaker of English, I have never seen any of these
quad*gram words before. That's why we have 4-gram!

I have heard of tetragram, but I wouldn't use it. Seems
a little esoteric, forced.
And 'pentagram' I associate with cabalistic magic.

How about the rest of you? As native speakers (rather than
linguists), would you put 'quad*gram' in a paper
rather than 4-gram?

Eleanor Olds Batchelder