[Corpora-List] English confusables

[Oakey, David [ENGL]]

Hello Simon,

The COBUILD English Guide no. 4 "Confusable Words" by Edwin Carpenter (1993) takes a corpus-driven look at this from an ESL pedagogical perspective. It contains 900 items which "look or sound similar, or have similar but not identical meanings" or which are false friends. It's obviously not machine readable but it will at least provide a definition of "confusable" to compare against other definitions.

Best wishes,

David



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From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of Carter, Simon
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 4:28 AM
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Subject: [Corpora-List] English confusables

Dear Corpora List,

I was wondering if there was list of English confusables somewhere? 

Thanks,

Simon








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