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Adventures in lexical analysis of a selected set[1] of Debian manpages, preliminary conclusions:

The third-most-prevalent 4gram is "1 author joey hess"

@joeyh. do you have anything to say for yourself?

Notes:
1. Roughly 9,000 of 13,480 manpages lexilysed.

@dredmorbius mostly that I sometimes read a man page and am surprised to find that line in it

Dr. Edward Morbius ⭕ @dredmorbius

@joeyh It's in 45 manpages, so far. More than any other 4gram save "10 of the linux" and "1 general commands manual".

Beating the GPL is pretty impressive.