<html>
<body>
Hi Linda<br><br>
Yes, as BNC was mainly compiled by 1994, most of the occurrences will
actually be from the <br>
period before 'ordinary people' started using email.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx" eudora="autourl">
http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx</a><br>
will give you 40 examples (type "e+mail"), plus a collocation
list<br>
if you want it, + 11 examples for "email" (surely now the
preferred form?).<br><br>
You may get even more current usage examples from<br>
<a href="http://www.webcorp.org.uk/">http://www.webcorp.org.uk/</a> <br>
Or from<br>
<a href="http://www.highbeam.com/library/index.asp" eudora="autourl">
http://www.highbeam.com/library/index.asp</a><br><br>
Best<br>
Ramesh<br><br>
At 20:56 21/05/2006, Linda Bawcom wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dear friends, colleagues and
list members,<br>
<br>
I have two sentences from two separate newspaper articles:<br>
<br>
<u>The e-mail</u> indicated that they were going scuba diving off the
coast of Thailand.<br>
<br>
<u>The message</u> indicated that they were going to be scuba diving off
the coast of Thailand.<br>
<br>
For the moment, though interesting, my concern is not with the change of
tense. My problem is finding strings with 'e-mail'. The BNC's 60
examples seem to be almost entirely from computer magazines (although I
haven't checked David Lee's Index) and so discuss functions of
e-mail and similar and are of no use to me. My own small corpus only has
this one instance; and of course, earlier corpora does not have this
word.<br>
<br>
Any advice would be very much appreciated and I wouldn't mind buying the
corpus/corpora (providing it's within reason for a single researcher). My
apologies for not keeping prior e-mails that discussed different corpora.
In my certitude that the BNC would be all I needed, I deleted them (well,
live and learn). <br>
<br>
Kindest regards (from Liverpool at the moment),<br>
Linda <br>
<br>
<br><br>
<br>
<font color="#0000BF">"</font>
<font face="comic sans ms" color="#0000BF"><b><i>Any man's death
diminishes me because I am involved in mankind."</i></b> <b>John
Donne</blockquote>
<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
Ramesh Krishnamurthy<br>
Lecturer in English Studies<br>
School of Languages and Social Sciences<br>
Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK<br>
[Room NX08, North Wing of Main Building]<br>
Tel: +44 (0)121-204-3812<br>
Fax: +44 (0)121-204-3766<br>
<a href="http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr.jsp" eudora="autourl">
http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr.jsp</a></font></b></body>
</html>