# Rehling 2014: Murder and NLP: Taman Shud case splash

> John Rehling, 2014. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Independent confirmation of the initialism reading.

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# Murder and NLP: Taman Shud case splash

John Rehling, 2014. _NLP Confidential (blog), 24 July 2014_.

A computational linguist's n-gram analysis concluding the code is almost certainly an initialism of short English text, with no matching passage in over 20,000 Gutenberg books.

**Somerton Man (Tamam Shud)** Web pageChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Independent confirmation of the initialism reading.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[An independent n-gram analysis also finds it almost certainly an English initialism.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/somerton-man/evidence/EVD0CVC26B4436M/an-independent-n-gram-analysis-also-finds-it-almost)

Evidence

EVD

[No matching passage has been found in more than 20,000 Project Gutenberg books.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/somerton-man/evidence/EVD0CVC26JY12DD/no-matching-passage-has-been-found-in-more-than-20-000)

Evidence

EVD

[The Somerton Man (Tamam Shud)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/somerton-man)

The mystery article

MYS

[What are the five pencilled lines in the Rubaiyat?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/somerton-man/questions/QST0CVC20Z85TC8/what-are-the-five-pencilled-lines-in-the-rubaiyat)

Question

QST

## Cite it

```
Rehling, J. (2014). Murder and NLP: Taman Shud case splash. NLP Confidential (blog), 24 July 2014. http://nlpconfidential.blogspot.com/2014/07/murder-and-nlp-taman-shud-case-splash.html
```

[Read it free at nlpconfidential.blogspot.com](http://nlpconfidential.blogspot.com/2014/07/murder-and-nlp-taman-shud-case-splash.html)

Key

**SRC** 0CVC1RXE1BT9

Kind

Web page

Rights

The publisher's

Kept

27 Oct 2026, for editors

Checked

Against the published original

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