Re: [Corpora-List] Google searches as linguistic evidence

From: Diana Maynard (d.maynard@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2006 - 13:58:46 MET

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    Indeed. I looked through some of them and there were some like that, but
    many genuine ones too
    Diana

    Fanny Meunier wrote:
    > Hi there,
    >
    > Your question puzzled me and I googled "a worshop" (7840000 hits) vs
    > "an workshop" (21500 hits).
    >
    > It struck me that they were quite a lot of German refs such as
    > Sie bitte *an workshop*@... (= sthg like: please see workshop@...)
    > schicken Sie bitte eine Email *an workshop* (= sthg like: please send
    > an e-mail to workshop@...)
    > direkt per E-Mail *an workshop*@... (= directly via e-mail to
    > workshop@...)
    >
    > Food for thought...
    >
    > All the best,
    > Fanny
    >
    >
    >

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