19 December 2010

Machine reading tripped up by old-school orthography

Many of us are aware that in English, time was that the letter 's' could be written or printed in a form that looks to the modern eye like an 'f'. Google books' machine reading doesn't get seem to have 'learnt' this. Check out the entries on this search ...

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The Bible in a Disenchanted Age -a brief review

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