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The Indians of the eastern U.S. utilized other wild foods that required more-or-less laborious preparation to make them edible. [36] It is hardly likely that they would have used such foods if foods that were more easily prepared had been readily available in sufficient quantity. Euell Gibbons, an expert on edible wild plants, reported an episode of living off the country in the eastern United States. [37] It’s difficult to say what his experience tells us about primitive people’s working...

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The final variable in sorting them is the frequency of use of the kanji in modern communication. Previous frequency lists were based on freely available old lists generated by counting occurrence of the kanji in a newspaper. These lists are outdated and heavily biased towards newspaper text.