Terminology question

[Dennis R. Preston]

FABULAE (Film and book unlimited lexical access to English)

dInIs (proving his ability to be sophomoric with the rest of you)

>A professor of English overseas asks the following:
>
>"I am creating my own database, consisting of recent English-language
>novels and movie scripts. It contains nine million words. When I refer to
>it in my publication (in English), what should I call it?"
>
>Of course I have some quaint sophomoric notions of my own but perhaps some
>of the academicians can put forth a more apt term than I can.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>-- Doug Wilson
>
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