> However, such logic is not always consistent with the development
> of language.
> I, myself, had figured it ought to be 'quadrigram' until someone
> mentioned 'tetragram'.
> In my dictionary, as illogical as it may seem, 'tetragram' is listed (but
> not 'quadrigram'). And, of course, pentagram (not quinquegram
> or quintegram, so far as I know) is used.
> Go figure.
Following on the "non-native speaker" thread, I have a
problem. "Bi" is a Latin prefix, and "gram" is a Greek
root. I was taught in a high school that this should not be
the case. Shannon himself used "DIgram," not "BIgram."
Just for historical curiosity, when did "bigram" replace
"digram" in the short history of quantitative linguistics?
Syun