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7.4 Frequency of I am/ ’m just sayin(g) and I was just saying in
a variety of historical corpora 214
7.5 Frequency of I am/ ’m sayin(g) in a variety of historical corpora 217
7.6 Frequency of all/ what I am/ ’m sayin(g) in a variety
of historical corpora 223
8.1 Position of parenthetical if I may/ might say so in COCA 233
9.1 Frequency of non- complemented and complemented uses
of what is/ ’s/ was more in COCA 253
9.2 Relative frequency of what was more and what’s more over
the centuries 260