Talk:corpus

I move that "especially in the form of an electronic database" be deleted.

The word has a long history, having been been adopted into many languages over centuries. It came from Greek by way of Latin and first appeared in middle English.

There is nothing special in the media used to preserve the body of works that should affect the definition of such a body. Librarians have been using this word long before there were electric lights, let alone computers. It is a "generic" word, referring to gathered works without regard to the collection's physical form or media.

Therefore this phrase adds an incorrect connotation to the definition, implying recent origin (the computer age) and special association (with electronic records).

(Consider Thomas Jefferson reseeding the Library of Congress after the British burned Washington in 1812, resurrecting it from his personal library "corpus".) HiTechHiTouch (talk) 20:47, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

RFV discussion: September–November 2020
Both quotations are for, an obsolete spelling of an obsolete name for a 10 pt letter. --Lambiam 09:50, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

RFV-failed. Quotes only support the interpretation of as a German name for the typeface, not English. Kiwima (talk) 09:48, 2 November 2020 (UTC)