Corpora: Corp[us|ora]

[Tony Perretta]

HAHAHA!

Oh my God ... Irony

Those Brits eh?

BTW Corpuses is deemed valid in many dictionara ... (titter)

Tony (Cockney boy) Perretta


----- Original Message -----
From: Darren Pearce <darrenp at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
To: <corpora at hd.uib.no>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: Corpora: Corp[us|ora]



AltaVista advanced search page counts:
corpuses: ~500
corpora:  ~55,500

I have 50M words of BNC data and the stats I have from that (based on
dependencies) give:

corpora: 11
corpuses: 5

Surprisingly low (and close)...

Darren.

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, James L. Fidelholtz wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Harold Somers wrote:
>
> >Could users of this mailing list at least get it right?
> >One corpus.
> >Several corpora.
> >It's not too much to ask is it?
>
> Harold:
> Well, it depends what language you are using.  In Spanish, the
> plural of 'corpus' would be 'corpus', especially if you're not trying to
> be snotty or hypercorrect.  Even in English, except here on the list, I
> might very well use 'corpuses'.  Maybe someone can check the BNC and see
> what they come up with.
> Jim
>
> --
> James L. Fidelholtz e-mail: jfidel at siu.buap.mx
> Posgrado en Ciencias del Lenguaje tel.: +(52-2)229-5500 x5705
> Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades fax: +(01-2) 229-5681
> Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, MÉXICO
>
>
>

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