Selected quad for the lemma: word_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
word_n	according_a	hear_v	speak_v	2,817	5	4.2871	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94025	Strange news from West-Smithfield, or, The Man-child of Manchester being a true and impartial account of the prodigious knowledge and elocution of a male-infant, of three years of age, newly brought up to the Bear-Inn in Smithfield ...		1679 (1679)	Wing S5913; ESTC R42991	2,106	11

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