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A: Are there any websites that show you the popularity and regional use of words? I recommend The Corpus of Contemporary American English (and for BrE its sister the British National Corpus). It's a very powerful tool, supporting wildcards, part of speech tagging, grouping by lemma (e.g. dies, dying, and died can all be grouped with die), and the ability to see the context of what... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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A: Can non-English-speaking characters use wordplay specific to English? Yes, non-English-speaking characters can use English wordplay. For example, none of the people in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar are really speaking English, yet there is no problem that there are puns, some meter, and even a little rhyming—all in English. (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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A: Best practice for academic writing: write and cite or write first? If you don't keep track of your citations as you write, you will forget where you found the information. It will only get worse as you get further along and are using more and more citations (often from sources with similar names and covering a lot of the same material), with stricter citation requir... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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A: What are the words that were used during Shakespeare's time that are seldom used nowadays? A concordance lists every word used in a work (or across a series of works) alphabetically, so the link Concordance of Shakespeare's complete works from OpenSourceShakespeare will be helpful. Clicking on a word will show you which works it was used in, and clicking on the title of the work will show ... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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A: How to search for titles of novels that are or begin with a word or phrase previously used as the title of many nonfictional works? Although it only has speculative fiction, The Internet Speculative Fiction Database could help. It's a start, and it's powerful enough to do exactly what you want (plus it can be downloaded and queried with SQL for even more power if you needed something more complicated). On this page), you should s... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |