Terminology question

[Joel S. Berson]

"Theft" may be apt.

Joel

At 2/20/2006 01:57 AM, you wrote:
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>A professor of English overseas asks the following:
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>"I am creating my own database, consisting of recent English-language
>novels and movie scripts. It contains nine million words. When I refer to
>it in my publication (in English), what should I call it?"
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>Of course I have some quaint sophomoric notions of my own but perhaps some
>of the academicians can put forth a more apt term than I can.
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>Any suggestions?
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>-- Doug Wilson
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