Re: Corpora: add corpusy to Zarf

Lou Burnard (lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:43:57 +0100 (BST)

On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Tadeusz Piotrowski wrote:

|>>'Corpusy'?
|>>I think this one goes next to Zarf.
|
|Zarf is a Turkish word, now we know that. Corpusy is a fine -- except for
|the "C" -- Slavic word: the plural of corpus! (for sure in Polish). Turkey
|and the Slavic countries have a long long common border...
|Can't you -- we ? -- borrow a Polish adjective for corpusoid: corpusowy
|(korpusowy to be exact)? Would be fun.

No no. There already is an adjective derived from "corpus":
"corporeal" which you'll find has at least some of the right
collocations/connotations (check out the 44 occurrences in the BNC)

Lou

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