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Robin Hamilton
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Retired lecturer in English, now Independent Scholar.

For the last ten years or so, since 2015, I've been researching Cant (criminal speech, argot) from 1500-1900.

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How useful are Ngrams in exploring English? (The case of “fit down”) [duplicate]
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