W. Nelson Francis, Ph.D. (October 23, 1910 – June 14, 2002) was an American author, linguist, and university professor. He served as a member of the faculties of Franklin & Marshall College and Brown University, where he specialized in English and corpus linguistics. He is known for his work compiling a text collection entitled the Brown University Standard Corpus of Present-Day American English, which he completed with Henry Kučera.
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23 October 1910 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Died |
14 June 2002 (aged 91) Providence, Rhode Island
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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