Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	name_n	read_v	write_v	2,666	5	5.4103	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37114	The Turkish secretary containing the art of expressing ones thoughts, without seeing, speaking, or writing to one another : with the circumstances of a Turkish adventure : as also a most curious relation of translated by the author of the Monthly account.; Secrétaire turc. English	Du Vignau, sieur des Joanots.; Phillips, John, 1631-1706.	1688 (1688)	Wing D2922; ESTC R22181	54,985	86

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