[Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

[Ramesh Krishnamurthy]

Hi Martin,

Excellent point!

But I think it's just that the personal anecdote is at the tip of 
one's brain when
reading emails, whereas the 'corpus-lookup' is not an immediate option...

...and there is no obvious parallel corpus of Br-Am Eng to consult...
Do you know of one by any chance...

..as it's a topic that Constantin and I started working on a bit
(eg Complex01 at B'ham Uni - the Globalization of Business English),
and hope to continue at some point in the future ..

Consulting research papers is also not an immediate option;
I probably have several on this topic, but to remember which ones,
and to locate them would not be a trivial task...
so perhaps we will get the more considered, academic replies
in a few days' time?
:-)

Best
Ramesh

At 09:56 09/11/2006, you wrote:
>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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Ramesh Krishnamurthy

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