[Corpora-List] Unsuccessful BNC word search

[Ramesh Krishnamurthy]

Hi Linda

Yes, as BNC was mainly compiled by 1994, most of the occurrences will 
actually be from the
period before 'ordinary people' started using email.

http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx
will give you 40 examples (type "e+mail"), plus a collocation list
if you want it, + 11 examples for "email" (surely now the preferred form?).

You may get even more current usage examples from
<http://www.webcorp.org.uk/>http://www.webcorp.org.uk/
Or from
http://www.highbeam.com/library/index.asp

Best
Ramesh

At 20:56 21/05/2006, Linda Bawcom wrote:
>Dear friends, colleagues and list members,
>
>I have two sentences from two separate newspaper articles:
>
>The e-mail indicated that they were going scuba diving off the coast 
>of Thailand.
>
>The message indicated that they were going to be scuba diving off 
>the coast of Thailand.
>
>For the moment, though interesting, my concern is not with the 
>change of tense. My problem is finding strings with 'e-mail'.  The 
>BNC's 60 examples seem to be almost entirely from computer magazines 
>(although I haven't checked David Lee's Index) and so 
>discuss  functions of e-mail and similar and are of no use to me. My 
>own small corpus only has this one instance; and of course, earlier 
>corpora does not have this word.
>
>Any advice would be very much appreciated and I wouldn't mind buying 
>the corpus/corpora (providing it's within reason for a single 
>researcher). My apologies for not keeping prior e-mails that 
>discussed different corpora. In my certitude that the BNC would be 
>all I needed, I deleted them (well, live and learn).
>
>Kindest regards (from Liverpool at the moment),
>Linda
>
>
>
>
>"Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind." John Donne

Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Lecturer in English Studies
School of Languages and Social Sciences
Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
[Room NX08, North Wing of Main Building]
Tel: +44 (0)121-204-3812
Fax: +44 (0)121-204-3766
http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr.jsp 
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