Talk:Bank of English

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The article says: "Bank of English: The corpus totals 525 million running words as of 2005."

Let me put it this way: oi vey!!! (could be wai di mi, should you rather go for Judeo-Spanish instead of the Yiddish so ingrained into English*. Even French, known for... long talks, does not have this many words**. English, over half a bil??? Let us be serious for a change!

BTW, the Bank of English used to have some free services, but no more: the prices are prohibitive for most of us, and Collins dictionaries I checked do not indicate how common/obscure a word might be... Any other source? A dependable, yet free one perhaps... Rumsefardi 03:32, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• oy can be found in Merriam-Webster http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
• probably all or most of the Romance languages (the majors -- Spanish, French, Italian, Portugese, the quasi-majors -- Rumanian/Roumanian/Romanian, and the minors in a range from Romanche to Macedo-Rumanian, Megleno-Romanian, Istro-Romanian, and Ladino)combined have a much smaller corpus...