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by SeanLuke 1756 days ago
Did they bother analyzing the rest of the Shakespeare canon to see how often "the" appeared? The article doesn't say.
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Yeah, that's the chart in the middle of the article of the log likelihood of each word. The higher that score, the more a word is used in Macbeth relative to the rest of his plays. However ... the author blips right over the fact that "our" and "she"--two very common words--both have a higher log likelihood than "the".