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Strictly private and confidential

As we discussed on the telephone, it would appear that

MaxiSoft is currenltly under attack from some quarter.

There are various rhumours flying around that we

anticipate will receive some press coverage over the

comming days. We do not know the source of these

rhumours, which may be from disgruntled

(current/former) employees or unsuccessful

competitors.

One of the rhumours being peddled is that becase of

the delay in the finalisation of the HIS contract, we may

have recognised some revenue assocaited with that

work. However, I reassure you that such allegations

are completely false and that we will refute and defend

any such allegations. In addition, all the cost of

supporting the HIS bid to date have been fully

expensed. This issue may not be raised in the press, but

I thought I would let you know just in case.

Best Regards

CONCLUSION

Unlike Forensic Phoneticians, forensic linguists are never
going to have reliable population statistics to enable them to talk
about “the frequency or rarity of particular linguistic features.” I
would argue, however, that the work of Wright and Grant opens
a way to derive reliable and usable data about individual
linguistic usage that can be applied in cases of authorship
attribution. With tools like these, linguists can begin to make
statements about frequency and likelihood of occurrence and, in
cases where the data permits a Jaccard analysis, provide
rigorous probability statistics.