Comments on: It’s Coming…An A To Zimmer Introduction

By: "Mob" Mentality, from Jonathan Swift to Karl Rove : OUPblog

"Mob" Mentality, from Jonathan Swift to Karl Rove : OUPblog — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:05:32 +0000

[...] get a sense of how pejoratively the word mob is used in contemporary English, I took a look at the Oxford English Corpus, in order to see what sort of lexical crowd mob hangs out with. For instance, the Corpus can say [...]

By: Phrasal Patterns 2: Electric Boogaloo : OUPblog

Phrasal Patterns 2: Electric Boogaloo : OUPblog — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:10:49 +0000

[...] thing becomes quite obvious when looking at a large corpus of online texts (whether it’s the Oxford English Corpus or the rough-and-ready corpus of webpages indexed by Google or another search engine): writers are [...]

By: Pouring New Wine Into Old Phrasal Bottles : OUPblog

Pouring New Wine Into Old Phrasal Bottles : OUPblog — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:10:42 +0000

[...] Language” column to a subject that should be familiar to readers of this column: the Oxford English Corpus and the fascinating things that it tells us about our changing language. Among Erin’s [...]

By: Check Out This Cool Tool. But only from afar. at Thingnamer.com

Check Out This Cool Tool. But only from afar. at Thingnamer.com — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:53:41 +0000

[...] is obvious that Oxford is looking to invest heavily in the OEC brand. Rebecca over at OUP notes that the “Powered by Oxford Corpus” is showing up on all the new Oxford [...]

By: Peter Adams

Peter Adams — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:05:29 +0000

I gather the corpus is not available to scholars other than those working on OUP projects. Correct?

By: A Poptastic Geekfest for Infoholics : OUPblog

A Poptastic Geekfest for Infoholics : OUPblog — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:05:35 +0000

[...] of simply guessing at which coinages might come up, what are word-hunters to do? Once again the Oxford English Corpus comes to the rescue. The Corpus can be analyzed with search tools that let us see which pieces of [...]

By: Shifting Idioms: An Eggcornucopia : OUPblog

Shifting Idioms: An Eggcornucopia : OUPblog — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:49:16 +0000

[...] to be considered nonstandard errors, albeit creative ones. As with minuscule vs. miniscule, the Oxford English Corpus is a valuable tool for determining whether a particular eggcorn is a flash in the pan or here to [...]

By: Tracking the most miniscule, uh, minuscule of errors : OUPblog

Tracking the most miniscule, uh, minuscule of errors : OUPblog — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:19:54 +0000

[...] we perhaps being too hard on miniscule? Lexicographers here at OUP can consult the Oxford English Corpus to see just how accepted this spelling has become. In our hardly minuscule collection of [...]

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:50:06 +0000

Sorry! Even I make mistakes!

By: Stumblng Tumblr

Stumblng Tumblr — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:49:39 +0000

Did you mean “impetus”, not “impetuous”?