[Corpora-List] Corpora containing common English words including slang.

[Mike Maxwell]

Joe Moore wrote:
> I'm looking for a list of commonly used words and slang by native 
> English speakers. 

Commonly used words should be easy to find, but what is slang?

Has anyone ever annotated a corpus for "slang"?  If so, what 
instructions were the annotators given?  There is an attempt at a rather 
vague linguistic definition of slang here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slang
...and a slang dictionary here, which might be usable for tagging:
    http://onlineslangdictionary.com/
Of course, whether a word goes into this dictionary is very subjective.

Is there a cross-language notion of slang?  There's a wikipedia page 
here which is supposed to point to slang in various languages:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Slang_by_language
At a quick glance, it seems to be a hodge-podge of articles on 
non-standard dialects, profanity, anti-euphemisms, and usage by "lower 
classes."  It is not an article that inspires confidence...
-- 
    Mike Maxwell
    What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?
    --Robert Dicke, Princeton physicist

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