The American National Corpus
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The American National Corpus
I thought everyone might want to know about the American National Corpus. The address is www.americannationalcorpus.org. The website includes a link to the British National Corpus.
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- Grand Panjandrum
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Depends upon how full of corp they are . . . but wait a minute! Faith and Begorra! Look what falls out o' the corp! Sweet Mother Machree, how soon we forget!
Irish Proverb: Don't throw shamrocks; throw the real things!
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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My turn to be pedantic. According to my printed dictionary, shouldn't that be corpora? (4th Declension Nominative (or Accusative, as the object of like) Plural?)I like corpus, especially if they are females'.
Brazilian dude
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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- Grand Panjandrum
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- Grand Panjandrum
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- Grand Panjandrum
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- Grand Panjandrum
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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Ah, but the rest of the sentence was in the plural:Yes, it is, but I was referring to corpus.but females' is plural possessive, eh?
Brazilian dude
Shouldn't it have then been:I like corpus, especially if they are females'.
Brazilian dude
I like [a] corpus, especially if it is a female's.
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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I'll have to check the dictionary when I get home. It had corpus, corporis, in the dictionary entry. Back in the declension tables, it had opus, operis in 4th declension as I recall with opera for the Nom and Acc plurals.And corpus is a third declension noun, genitive singular in is: corporis. The fourth declension has genitive in -us, such as lacus, lacus.
Brazilian dude
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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