17.408 name frequencies

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             Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:02:12 +0000
             From: Louis Janus <janus005@umn.edu>
             Subject: Re: 17.407 name frequencies?

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    >
    >I would welcome your thoughts and comments on this work
    >and its implications for understanding communication. Have
    >you considered analyzing name frequencies as part of your
    >work?

    I always point my Norwegian language students to the fantastic statistics
    and graphic representation of Norwegian first and last names, in English at
    http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/00/navn_en/.

    Swedes and Danes keep and similar statistics.

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