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0:00 Introduction: determiners, quantifiers
2:15 'Multiple'
3:26 The adjective: history and meaning
4:55 The new quantifier: multiple people, multiple times
6:03 How and when? Ngrams
6:55 English corpora
7:22 British National Corpus
7:46 Movie Corpus, Soap Corpus
8:18 Time Magazine Corpus, TV Corpus
8:47 'Multiple' mutates
10:06 Tech associations
11:40 'Multiple' and the partitive
13:35 'Multiple' has a distinctive meaning
14:38 'Several' on steroids
15:47 New survey!