The search is looking for the exact phrase. There's a brief summary of how the search works at: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/info
Nancy ________________________________ From: Clay Blackwell <clayblackw...@comcast.net> To: Ilske Thomsen <ilske-peter-thom...@t-online.de> Cc: Arachne Arachne <lace@arachne.com> Sent: Sat, December 18, 2010 1:36:11 PM Subject: Re: [lace] "bobbin lace" in print in English I think it is important for us to differentiate between what *we* have always thought, and what the writers of the particular books which were searched thought! I'm curious how the search works too... is it looking for word combinations that are exact, as in "bobbin lace" but not "lace bobbin"? Or is it searching for sentences that contain both words, but not necessarily together? All of these things make a huge difference. Clay On 12/18/2010 11:52 AM, Ilske Thomsen wrote: > In those diagrams is machine-, needle-. bobbin- and pillow-lace mentioned. >Could somebody tell me the difference between bobbin- and pillow-lace. > Do they mean Teneriffe-lace? Or is pillow-lace the sum of needle- and >bobbin-lace? Both are made on a pillow, needle lace in another sort of pillow >ok. Only machine-lace isn't done on a pillow. > > > Ilske > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
