New corpus

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:17 PM, LanDi Liu <strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've just been made aware of a FREE new corpus of American English:
>
> The Corpus of American English
> http://www.americancorpus.org/
>
> Not to be confused with the (regrettable) American National Corpus (ANC).
>
> I've been playing around with it, and I have to say that so far, it
> seems just wonderful.  It was created by Mark Davies at Brigham Young
> University.  I can see myself using it a lot in the future.

Already in use on Language Log...

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=211


--Ben Zimmer

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