Re: Corpora: Corp[us|ora]

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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)...
>
Actually what prompted my posting was the use by three different
people just that morning of "corpora" for the singular, as in "I am
looking for a corpora of child language". I don't have a problem with
"corpuses" as the plural.

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