A Dictionary of Modern Italian, the Graphical law and Dictionary of Law and Administration, 2000, National Law Development Foundation

Abstract

We study A Dictionary of Modern Italian by John Purves. We draw the natural logarithm of the number of entries, normalised, starting with a letter vs the natural logarithm of the rank of the letter, normalised. We conclude that the Dictionary can be characterised by BP(4,βH=0) i.e. a magnetisation curve for the Bethe-Peierls approximation of the Ising model with four nearest neighbours in absence of external magnetic field. H is external magnetic field, β is 1 kBT where, T is temperature and kB is the Boltzmann constant. Moreover, we compare the Italian language with other Romance languages. These are the Spanish, the Basque and the Romanian languages respectively. On the top of it, we compare A Dictionary of Modern Italian with Dictionary of Law and Administration, 2000, by National Law Development Foundation. We find a tantalizing similarity between the Modern Italian and the jargon of law and administartion. ∗ anindya@nehu.ac.in