Re: Corpora: Corp[us|ora]

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Harold Somers writes:
> Could users of this mailing list at least get it right?
> One corpus.
> Several corpora.
> It's not too much to ask is it?

The Shorter OED gives both corpora and corpuses as the valid plurals
for "corpus".

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