3.2 Data collection

The search for all spelling variants of thine in Early English Prose Fiction retrieves a total of 1411 hits (after 92 hits for thin meaning ‘of little thickness or depth’ have been discarded).

For the newer variant yours and its alternant graphic forms, the total runs to 1015 hits.

Having obtained all relevant results, the methods sketched in Section 2.1. will now be applied to determine the frequencies of both variants.

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