Corpora: Corp[us|ora]

[harold.somers at umist.ac.uk]

>
> 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)...
>
Actually what prompted my posting was the use by three different
people just that morning of "corpora" for the singular, as in "I am
looking for a corpora of child language". I don't have a problem with
"corpuses" as the plural.