May I suggest having a look in Ken Church's introduction to Ngrams. You
will find it using the obvious key words on e.g. google (Church Ngrams).
Filename: kwc-ngrams.pdf
The task can be done by simple combinations of paste, tail, sort, uniq
-c, and filtering programs written in awk. Hard to make anything better
than that.
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