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Name: Comparison - A Retrospection
ID: m13592
Language: English (en)
Summary: Sherlock Holmes, having pressed the Babbage Analytical Engine into service to solve a problem in comparative linguistics, explains the key concepts and the results to Dr. Watson. Last of three Comparison modules.
Subject: Humanities, Science and Technology
Keywords: comparative linguistics, comparative method, correspondence sets, historical linguistics, Wordcorr, word lists
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)
Authors: Joseph Grimes (joe_grimes@sil.org)
Copyright Holders: Joseph Grimes (joe_grimes@sil.org)
Maintainers: Joseph Grimes (joe_grimes@sil.org)
Version: 1.8 (history)
Created: Apr 22, 2006 12:02 am GMT-5
Revised: May 19, 2006 7:42 pm GMT-5

Version History

Version: 1.8 May 19, 2006 7:42 pm GMT-5 by Joseph Grimes
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Minor editorial changes.
Version: 1.7 May 11, 2006 1:25 am GMT-5 by Joseph Grimes
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Removed redundant section title.
Version: 1.6 May 6, 2006 2:05 am GMT-5 by Joseph Grimes
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Added bibliographical reference to the final note.
Version: 1.5 May 6, 2006 1:41 am GMT-5 by Joseph Grimes
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Add examples, break up long paragraphs.
Version: 1.4 May 2, 2006 2:04 am GMT-5 by Joseph Grimes
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Link to Wikipedia.
Version: 1.3 May 2, 2006 1:58 am GMT-5 by Joseph Grimes
Changes: 
Minor editing, example words tagged as <foreign>.
Version: 1.2 Apr 23, 2006 11:26 pm GMT-5 by Joseph Grimes
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 Added wordcorr.org hyperlink.
Version: 1.1 Apr 22, 2006 1:39 am GMT-5 by Joseph Grimes
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