Words similar to periodical
Example sentences for: periodical
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Where the 1963 and 1980 dictionaries cited author, article, publication, and date (for a periodical), the same citation in the TBDNE gives only publication and date.
One consequence of this is that publishers have been able to increase subscription prices well above inflation; the United Kingdom has seen subscription rates rise by more than 200% in the last ten years (Blackwell's periodical price indexes; [3]).
As the reader can tell, both from these comments and from my shabby efforts in this periodical, I can rarely support the rewriting of my own material and, in fact, almost never rewrite anything of my own.
While it is acknowledged that such a method would not work well for books, the idea was that the number of occurrencies of a lemma (a technical though convenient term for the `thing--word or phrase--under study'), multiplied by, say the Audit Bureau of Circulation sworn circulation of a periodical would yield a figure that could legitimately be called its Exposure . Obviously, such a number would be far too large to manipulate readily, so, using a formula familiar to statisticians, it was normalized to produce a simple decimal number of only a few digits which I called the lemma's Exposure Index . The purpose of the exercise was to connect the frequency information with the language as it is used and perceived; in addition, the approach would serve to eliminate from consideration those materials which, though published, were little read, with a consequent low influence on the lexicon.
Those who wish to join The American Dialect Society are welcome on the payment of $30 (regular membership annual dues); for this they receive all publications, including American Speech, probably the best, most readable scholarly periodical on language in the world, Publication of the ADS, among which is the present volume, and the Newsletter.
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