영어교육을 위해 컴퓨터도 없이 1921년에는 4.5m, 1944년에는 18m 규모의 텍스트를 분석하여 어휘 빈도목록 제작.
미치지 않고서야 어떻게 이런 일을 할 수 있었을지... 존경스러울 따름입니다.
Thorndike, E.L. (1921) Teacher's Word book.
- a corpus of 4.5 million words from 41 different sources to make a word frequency list.
Full Text or PDF download available
http://archive.org/details/teacherswordbook00thoruoft
Thorndike & Lorge (1944) The Teacher's Word book of 30,000 Words.
- 18 million words from a wider range of textual sources.
Part of the Book download available
http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/triley/The%20Complete%20Collection/from%20The%20Teacher's%20Word%20Book.pdf