RE: [Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

From: Harold Somers (harold.somers@manchester.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2006 - 14:22:33 MET

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    >
    > Of which the second and third are now surely common to
    > British English, are they not?
    >
    >
    > On 3 Nov 2006, at 10:47, Harold Somers wrote:
    >
    > > To give just one example of each:
    > >
    > > Lift vs elevator
    > > Have you got vs do you have
    > > Half four vs 4:30
    >

    Diana beat me to it (while I was typing this reply!)

    There are 1033 occurrences of "do you have" in the BNC, not all of them
    interchangeable with "have you got". For example,

    How often do you have (* have you got) nightmares.
    Do you have them (* Have you got them) every night?

    1860 occurrences of "have you got"

    (In case you're wondering, "gotten" occurs 110 times.)

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