[Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

Harold Somers harold.somers at manchester.ac.uk
Thu Nov 9 12:43:42 UTC 2006


> 
> There's a new book by John Algeo, "British or American 
> English? A handbook of word and grammar patterns" (Cambridge 
> University Press), which is based on corpus data. There are 
> sections for all parts of speech and a selection of syntactic 
> constructions.
> 

I hope it's better than the previous book that was mentioned in this
thread. I immediately ordered it (reduced price, fortunately) from
Amazon, so it came the next day ... But it's little more than a list of
lexical equivalents, with some idioms. Nice description of baseball and
cricket however!



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