Selected quad for the lemma: work_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	word_n	work_v	worse_a	52	3	8.9654	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65598	The English-grammar, or, The institution of letters, syllables, and words in the English-tongue conteining [sic] all rules and directions necessary to bee known for the judicious reading, right-speaking, and writing thereof : very useful for all that desire to bee expert in the foresaid properties, more especially profitable for scholars immediately before their entrance into the rudiments of the Latine-tongue ... / composed by Jer. Wharton ...	Wharton, Jeremiah.	1654 (1654)	Wing W1571; ESTC R12017	45,942	126

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