Here’s something interesting from Martin Wattenberg: An Anti-Tag Cloud shows you the most common English words that never appear in a text, visualizing the “negative space” of a literary work.
Spoiler alert: you won’t find the word “blood” or “government” in Pride & Prejudice.
“Anti-Tag Clouds” find common words not used in popular literature
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