What is a Corpus?

A corpus is a body of texts, utterances, or other specimens considered more or less representative of a language, and usually stored as an electronic database.

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Medium: printed, electronic text, digitized speech, video.
Language: monolingual/multilingual
Information Content: Plain

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

vol. 1

chapter 1

IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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