Language X within scope of language Y

L.Gillam L.Gillam at surrey.ac.uk
Wed Feb 2 12:06:57 CET 2005


>From the British National Corpus lists:

(freq, word, pos, num docs)
479 civilised aj0 293
26 uncivilised aj0 20
12 civilise vvi 9

352 civilized aj0 206
19 uncivilized aj0 17
13 civilize vvi 12

Chi-squared significance testing anybody?


Standardi(s|z)ed spellings are not easy .........

125 standardized aj0 69
44 standardize vvi 39
33 standardized vvn 29
30 standardized aj0-vvd 25
13 standardized vvd-vvn 11
6 standardized vvd 4
6 standardize vvb 6
3 standardized aj0-vvn 3
1 standardized np0 1

249 standardised aj0 105
68 standardise vvi 61
67 standardised aj0-vvd 42
66 standardised vvn 48
24 standardised vvd-vvn 19
20 standardised vvd 17
15 standardised aj0-vvn 14
5 standardised np0 5
3 standardise nn1-vvb 3
1 standardised nn0 1


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no]On Behalf Of Michael
> Everson
> Sent: 28 January 2005 00:22
> To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: Re: Language X within scope of language Y
> 
> 
> At 12:57 -0500 2005-01-27, John Cowan wrote:
> 
> >  > By the way, I find that Canadian spelling is closest to if not
> >  > identical to Oxford spelling.
> >
> >Oxford has "tyre", whereas Canadian spelling has "tire".  
> "Tire centre" is a
> >shibboleth of en-ca, as we discussed here back in 2003-05.
> 
> Closest in that Canada and Oxford have centre/colour/civilize while 
> UK has centre/colour/civilise and US has center/color/civilize. 
> "Tyre" is far less important in terms of frequency.
> -- 
> Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
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