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| | Topical Words: Corpus |
 | | A corpus is a collection of written material in machine-readable form that has been put together for linguistic research. |
 | | Crime writers are fond of corpus delicti, for the facts and circumstances surrounding a crime (literally, it means “body of offence”). |
 | | When, for example, the corpus is examined for verbs which are most often used with man or boy but not woman or girl, they discover that men assault, hijack, crouch, kidnap, rob, grin, shoot, dig, stagger, leap, invent, or brandish. |
| www.worldwidewords.org /topicalwords/tw-cor1.htm (580 words) |
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