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<P>There is something called Moby word lists</P>
<P>Moby Words</P>
<P>354,984 single words</P>
<P>Over 354,000 single words, excluding proper names, acronyms, or compound
words and phrases. This list does not exclude archaic words or significant
variant spellings. </P>
<P>256,772 compound words</P>
<P>Over 256,700 hyphenated or other entries containing more than one word as
well as all capitalized words and acronyms. Phrases were considered 'common' if
they or variations of them occur in standard dictionaries or thesauruses.</P>
<P>at </P>
<P></FONT><A href="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/"><U><FONT
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<P>I am not quite sure about the quality.</P>
<P>Best wishes</P>
<P>Professor Tadeusz Piotrowski</P>
<P>English Department</P>
<P>Opole University</P>
<P>Opole</P>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-corpora@lists.uib.no
[mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] <B>On Behalf Of </B>John
Newman<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:33 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
CORPORA@UIB.NO<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Corpora-List] English compound
words<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=528421219-19052005>I am making this
inquiry to the list on behalf of a colleague who asks:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>I'm looking for a reasonably comprehensive
list of English compound words, whether spelled as two words, hyphenated, or
spelled as one word. Has anyone compiled such a list, or does anyone know of
corpora from which such a list might be straightforwardly
extracted?</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dr. Robert Kirchner, Linguistics Dept.<BR>4-20
Assiniboia Hall, U. Alberta<BR>Edmonton, AB T6G2E7<BR>(780) 492-3480 (fax
492-0806)<BR>kirchner@ualberta.ca, </FONT><A
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size=2>http://www.ualberta.ca/~kirchner</FONT></U></A><FONT face=Arial
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<P align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>John Newman,<BR>Department of
Linguistics<BR>Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta<BR>4-32 Assiniboia
Hall<BR>Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E7, CANADA<BR>Tel. (780) 492-5500, Fax. (780)
492-0806<BR>Homepage: </FONT><A href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~johnnewm/"><FONT
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