[Corpora-List] Google searches as linguistic evidence

[Diana Maynard]

Indeed. I looked through some of them and there were some like that, but 
many genuine ones too
Diana

Fanny Meunier wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Your question puzzled me and I googled "a worshop" (7840000 hits) vs 
> "an workshop" (21500 hits).
>
> It struck me that they were quite a lot of German refs such as 
> Sie bitte *an workshop*@... (= sthg like: please see workshop at ...)
> schicken Sie bitte eine Email *an workshop* (= sthg like: please send 
> an e-mail to workshop at ...)
> direkt per E-Mail *an workshop*@... (= directly via e-mail to 
> workshop at ...)
>
> Food for thought...
>
> All the best,
> Fanny
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