Keywords
Ngram Viewer, Book of Mormon, religious phrases
Abstract
Google’s Ngram Viewer often gives a distorted view of the popularity of cultural/religious phrases during the early 19th century and before. Other larger textual sources can provide a truer picture of relevant usage patterns of various content-rich phrases that occur in the Book of Mormon. Such an approach suggests that almost all of its phraseology fits comfortably within its syntactic framework, which is mostly early modern in character.
Recommended Citation
Carmack, Standford
(2020)
"Pitfalls of the Ngram Viewer,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 36, Article 11.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol36/iss1/11
