(AllHipHop News) Now when rap fans are in a heated debate about which emcee is the greatest lyricist of all time they will have mathematical information to back up their claims. Harvard University’s ...

“The image of rappers and champagne is pretty legendary and dramatic and problematic and funny,” says Tahir Hemphill. Hip-Hop Word Count has been a pet project of Hemphill’s since 2006, when the ...

The best part of "Damp Squid," a series of lexicographic essays by Jeremy Butterfield, isn't the oddball title but the computer that inspired it. The Oxford English Corpus, a database of more than 2 ...

We invite you to dive in and explore a database of words that appeared prominently in the print history of Scientific American. Below, each year of that historyis represented by a single word, which ...

I recently made a reservation on American Airlines and noticed that my record locator was a six-character alphabetic code. This automatically generated code reminded me of a funny story regarding ...