Asking google for n-gram may not do what you intended, since your query will
match all of ngram, n-gram and n gram. Even then, looking for "n gram"
(which will match n-gram and n gram) returns 68.900 hits, so n-gram is
probably still the right one.
Cheers,
Yannick Versley
What I got from google:
search str. hits
-------------- ---------
ngram 20 400
ngram -perl 16 100
"n gram" 68 500
"n gram" -perl 63 100
> Search string Hits
> ------------- ------
> ngram 21,100
>
> ngram not perl 540
>
> n-gram 85,700
>
> This seems to provide overwhelming evidence for
> a hyphen between "n" and "gram". Since Google
> doesn't distinguish capitals, that leaves the
> capitalization question unresolved.
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