As perhaps most of you know, a number of linguistic corpora are under construction at various institutions. For the sake of focus, let’s consider the American National Corpus (ANC).

The ANC is soliciting contributions of contemporary English, and so I was wondering if there were some painless (=fast and easy) way for MO to make such a contribution.

The ANC has specific instruction about how to go about making such a contibution. Here’s the link:

http://www.americannationalcorpus.org/

Yes. Hush, child.

It seems neither productive nor witty to disinter this thread just to add a clown's flower to the mouldering remains. I suggest someone locks the thread.