Corpora: Corp[us|ora]

[Darren Pearce]

AltaVista advanced search page counts:
	corpuses: ~500
	corpora:  ~55,500

I have 50M words of BNC data and the stats I have from that (based on
dependencies) give:

	corpora: 11
	corpuses: 5

Surprisingly low (and close)...

Darren.

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, James L. Fidelholtz wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Harold Somers wrote:
> 
> >Could users of this mailing list at least get it right?
> >One corpus.
> >Several corpora.
> >It's not too much to ask is it?
> 
> Harold:
> 	Well, it depends what language you are using.  In Spanish, the
> plural of 'corpus' would be 'corpus', especially if you're not trying to
> be snotty or hypercorrect.  Even in English, except here on the list, I
> might very well use 'corpuses'.  Maybe someone can check the BNC and see
> what they come up with.
> 		Jim
> 
> -- 
> James L. Fidelholtz			e-mail: jfidel at siu.buap.mx
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> 
> 
> 

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