3.184 size of the OED; gornisch (43)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Wed, 28 Jun 89 20:57:10 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 184. Wednesday, 28 Jun 1989.
(1) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 89 04:39:02 EDT (10 lines)
From: Ruth Glynn <RGLYNN@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX>
Subject: Size of the OED
(2) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 18:00 EDT (10 lines)
From: Peter D. Junger <JUNGER@CWRU>
Subject: Gornisch == Gar nicht
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 89 04:39:02 EDT
From: Ruth Glynn <RGLYNN@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX>
Subject: Size of the OED
The OED (second edition) is approx. 625 Mb with tagging,
and roughly half that without -- i.e. there are approx.
325,000,000 printed characters.
Ruth Glynn
OUP
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 18:00 EDT
From: Peter D. Junger <JUNGER@CWRU>
Subject: Gornisch == Gar nicht
To one who learned what little German he has in Kneipen
in Schweinfurth am Main, "gornisch" sounds very much the way I expect
to hear "gar nicht" pronounced. Could it be that gornisch refers to
something so marginal that it is nothing at all?
Peter D. Junger--CWRU Law School--Cleveland, OH--bitnet: JUNGER@CWRU
[Editor's query: has anyone at the OED thought of using groups like
Humanist for gathering occurrences of words?]