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The Standard Corpus of Present Day English Language Usage arranged by word length and alphabetized within word length

Artist
Gerald Ferguson
Date
1978
Publisher
self published
Format
Artists' Books
Details
Softcover
Size
21.5 × 27 × 2 cm
Length
290 
Description

“The Corpus” consists of 50,000 one to twenty-letter words, arranged by the author in alphabetical order. By retyping the second edition and running it offset, the various machine generated inaccuracies that appeared in the first edition were eliminated. The second edition also includes an introduction explaining the source of “The Corpus” and its subsequent use as a material for other works, as well as an appendix of 26 alphabet pages that provide the basis of the book. First edition published 1970.

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