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Some hard facts from the British National Corpus #BNC : of the 44 hits for "oddness", 16 come from the same source, which turns out to be D. A. Cruse's "Lexical Semantics" textbook from 1986. Which makes me wonder, not for the first time, whether it has been a good idea to include linguistic texts in the BNC sampling :)
#EnglishLinguistics #corpora #metaLinguistics
Also, as you can see, I am still interested in the #affix "-ness", and because the #BNC does not contain the plural form "oddnesses", here instead a rather nice example for its use from Ford's **Some do not ...**: "It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture."
#English #morphology #ness