[Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

[Martin Wynne]

I find it fascinating that as soon as we find a linguistic topic which 
sparks the interest of everyone here, the discussion suddenly makes 
hardly any reference to corpora. Why are suddenly anecdotes, intuitions, 
folk theories and made-up examples preferable to consulting corpora?

It's a serious question. It seems to me reasonable to bring in these 
other factors and pieces of evidence to inform a discussion about corpus 
linguistics, but why is almost no-one consulting a corpus, or consulting 
research papers based on corpora? Lack of resources? Lack of tools? 
Don't think that use of corpora is appropriate for this question?

Martin

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Martin Wynne
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AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics

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