#102 VV̶ℓ
Forms of the word “eat” occur 86 times in Project Hail Mary.
“eat” occurs 67 times, “eating” 10 times, “ate” 7 times, “eats” 1 time, and “eaten” 1 time.
In the Earth sections, the words appears 7 times. A form is used once by each of Leclerc, Marissa, and Stratt. Grace uses a form 1 time as narrator and 3 times in direct speech.
In the Space sections, the words appears 79 times with 63 occurrences of “eat”. The Computer uses a form 5 times. Grace uses a form 40 times as narrator and 15 times in direct speech. Rocky uses a form 19 times.
Here’s a visualization of the relative frequencies across all sections and chapters of the book.
Each coloured bar represents a section and is colour-coded for Earth sections (green) and Space sections (purple).
The grey bars represent the chapters, which are marked with ticks and numbers.
The y-axis is the relative frequency, i.e. the proportion of tokens in that section (or chapter) that match forms of “eat” (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).
Eat that.
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