In 2008, The ELFA corpus project completed the compilation of a one-million-word corpus of spoken academic English as a lingua franca. The ELFA corpus is freely available to researchers in both plain ...

New loans, leases and lines of credit signed up by companies in February also fell to $9.7 billion, from $9.8 billion in the year-ago period, ELFA added. Sign up here. "Demand for equipment ...