Pronunciation of ‘-ough’ words
This is the first blog of our brand new series looking at difficult to pronounce words. If there is any … Continued
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COBUILD: The Evolving Corpus. How corpus use has changed over the years
Size matters when it comes to corpora. At 220 million words of text, the corpus used to create the second
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COBUILD: Shifting senses. How meanings of words have changed over the last 30 years
In the 30 years since the publication of the first COBUILD dictionary, a whole flurry of new words has come
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COBUILD: The Early Years: Part 2. A dictionary from a corpus
By the time I arrived at COBUILD as part of the 1993 intake recruited to work on the second edition
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COBUILD Design and Layout: Changes over the last 30 years
Where were you 30 years ago? I was in the middle of my university studies, still to embark on my
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COBUILD: The Early Years: Part 1. Where it all began
I have always counted myself as incredibly fortunate to have worked as part of the COBUILD team at the time
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COBUILD 30th ANNIVERSARY
Since 1987, Collins COBUILD has been a leading source of authentic English worldwide. Now celebrating its 30th year, COBUILD continues
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Unlocking Mandarin with Paul Noble
This autumn best-selling language expert Paul Noble, author of the Unlocking language series, will release an exciting new title that
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Beat Blue Monday with 10 words to describe happiness
It’s official, experts have declared Monday 15th January 2018 ‘Blue Monday’, the glummest day of the year. The triple threat
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