B23

From BNC file CLP:  W.T. Singleton, _The mind at work_, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1989.


In the case of this text we checked orthographic oddities against
the original publication; a number of errors proved to have been 
introduced by the BNC compilers.

00364  Sentence-initial "for approximate" -> "For approximate";
the original publication has a capital.

00367  "less than 20%":  thus in the original publication, but
BNC has "200" in place of "20".

00369, 00373  Sentence-initial "for example" -> "For example".  
There seems to be a general rule whereby any sequence which BNC
wordtags as an idiom is spelled with an initial lower-case letter
irrespective of the original orthography; in each of these
cases the original publication had a capital.

00371  "such as those in the biological and physical sciences":
good style would require a comma following "sciences" to balance
the one preceding "such", but the original publication has no
comma there and this deviation from standard usage is not 
infrequent, so the original orthography is not corrected.

00381  "socio-technical systems":  BNC represents the hyphen
as "&rehy;", glossed in the User Guide as "maps to soft hyphen"
-- this seems to imply that the hyphen occurred at line-end in
the original (we did not check this), and the BNC compilers took
it to occur only for that reason.  However, the same compound
occurs hyphenated in the heading of the next section within the
text, without a line division, so LUCY treats the hyphen 
here as "hard", i.e. it is retained in the LUCY text file.

00419  "The emphasis on X and Y are the characteristics ...":
this is clearly an error of subject/verb agreement, but comes
into the category of writer's confusion rather than misprint, and
hence is left to stand in LUCY and is analysed as it stands.


