Response to Davies and Fuchs

Nelson, Gerald

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Response to Davies and Fuchs

Gerald Nelson | The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Published online: 10 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.36.1.02nel

Commentary to: Davies, Mark, and Robert Fuchs. 2015. "Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE)". English World-Wide 36:1–28 (This issue). DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.01dav

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