[Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

[Diana Maynard]

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>>> To give just one example of each:
>>>
>>> Lift vs elevator
>>> Have you got vs do you have
>>> Half four vs 4:30
>>>       
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> Diana beat me to it (while I was typing this reply!)
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> There are 1033 occurrences of "do you have" in the BNC, not all of them
> interchangeable with "have you got". For example,
>
> How often do you have (* have you got) nightmares. 
> Do you have them (* Have you got them) every night?
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> 1860 occurrences of "have you got"
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> (In case you're wondering, "gotten" occurs 110 times.)
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Sorry Harry! It would be interesting to know how many of those 
occurrences of "do you have" *are* interchangeable with "have you got", 
but you'd need a pretty good language analyser to work that one out......
Diana