Re: Corpora: Corp[us|ora]

From: Darren Pearce (darrenp@cogs.susx.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 23:27:32 MET DST

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    AltaVista advanced search page counts:
            corpuses: ~500
            corpora: ~55,500

    I have 50M words of BNC data and the stats I have from that (based on
    dependencies) give:

            corpora: 11
            corpuses: 5

    Surprisingly low (and close)...

    Darren.

    On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, James L. Fidelholtz wrote:

    > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Harold Somers wrote:
    >
    > >Could users of this mailing list at least get it right?
    > >One corpus.
    > >Several corpora.
    > >It's not too much to ask is it?
    >
    > Harold:
    > Well, it depends what language you are using. In Spanish, the
    > plural of 'corpus' would be 'corpus', especially if you're not trying to
    > be snotty or hypercorrect. Even in English, except here on the list, I
    > might very well use 'corpuses'. Maybe someone can check the BNC and see
    > what they come up with.
    > Jim
    >
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