"A Sucker Born Every Day" (Feb. 5, 1883)

Michael Quinion TheEditor at WORLDWIDEWORDS.ORG
Tue Dec 17 12:23:51 UTC 2002


> To summarize, something like the British National Corpus is a
> tool, and one tool only.

Yes, and to reiterate what I wrote yesterday such corpora are
statistical tools, not citational ones.

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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
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Web: <http://www.worldwidewords.org/>



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