I am researching Victorian London for a novel deadline today, so is the Dictionary of Victorian London website better than Google Books for finding authentic slang?
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
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I am researching Victorian London for a novel deadline today, so is the Dictionary of Victorian London website better than Google Books for finding authentic slang?
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
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ChatGPT real searches (2)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 2 of 2 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT2 real searches · gpt-6
Dictionary of Victorian London website slang entries sources archive about Google ↗
Google Books Ngram and full text search historical slang Victorian London corpus limitations Google ↗
- Lee Jackson · victorianlondon.org
- The Dictionary of Victorian London, by Lee Jackson, author · londonburialgrounds.org.uk
- Explore the website · victorianlondon.org
- Search Google Books · books.google.com
- Characterizing the Google Books Corpus: Strong Limits to Inferences of Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Evolution · pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Google Ngram Viewer · books.google.com
- A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words by John Camden Hotten · gutenberg.org
- Green’s Dictionary of Slang · bunkhistory.org
- Explore the dictionary · publicdomainreview.org
- Explore Green's Dictionary · greensdictofslang.com
Queries
2 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
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Dictionary of Victorian London website slang entries sources archive about OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Other / navigational | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Google Books Ngram and full text search historical slang Victorian London corpus limitations OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 |