Corpora: so-called data

Lou Burnard (lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk)
Sat, 08 Nov 1997 16:17:21 +0000

For those interested in repeating or quantifying Jock McNaught's
investigation into the likely subtext of "so-called", I have placed a file
containing all
2687 occurrences of "so-called" in the BNC at
http://firth.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/BNC/Misc/socalled.lis

This is also by way of an apology to those who have been trying in vain to
use our online BNC query service over the last few days-- we have had the
unfortunate combination of our backup machine suffering a fatal disk crash,
and the main machine developing an as yet undiagnosed series of crashes. We
are working on getting the service back as soon as possible, and hope to
announce it later this week.

apologetically

Lou