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

From: Diana Maynard (d.maynard@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2006 - 14:35:57 MET

  • Next message: Geoffrey Sampson: "Re: [Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter"

    >
    >>> 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.)
    >
    >
    Sorry Harry! It would be interesting to know how many of those
    occurrences of "do you have" *are* interchangeable with "have you got",
    but you'd need a pretty good language analyser to work that one out......
    Diana

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Nov 03 2006 - 14:37:50 MET