How to pronounce COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English)

[pinkie9]

Hello

How do native speakers pronounce "COCA" (Corpus of Contemporary American English)?

Is it like "Coca" as in Coca-Cola or like "sea-oh-sea-eh"?

 

[5jj]

Is it like "Coca" as in Coca-Cola?

It is for me, on the rare occasions I talk about it. I see/use it mostly in the written form.

 

[Tdol]

I use Coca-cola, but I also mostly see it written.

 

[Barb_D]

And I would have guessed it was said "see-oh-see-ay." Learn something new every day!

 

[5jj]

And I would have guessed it was said "see-oh-see-ay." Learn something new every day!

It could well be that yours is the norm.

Although I gratefully use COCA and BNC, I don't move in the field of corpus linguistics. I have no idea how those who frolic there pronounce 'COCA'. I happened to settle on 'Coca', (as in the drink), for myself. It could be that Tdol and I are the only two people on the planet who use this form.

 

[emsr2d2]

It could well be that yours is the norm.

Although I gratefully use COCA and BNC, I don't move in the field of corpus linguistics. I have no idea how those who frolic there pronounce 'COCA'. I happened to settle on 'Coca', (as in the drink), for myself. It could be that Tdol and I are the only two people on the planet who use this form.

Can I join your little club please? I'd never even heard of COCA until you mentioned it on this forum but I have always read it in my head like "Coca(Cola)" and if I said it out loud, which I haven't, that's how I would pronounce it.

 

[5jj]

Can I join your little club please? I'd never even heard of COCA until you mentioned it on this forum but I have always read it in my head like "Coca(Cola)" and if I said it out loud, which I haven't, that's how I would pronounce it.

Welcome to the the Coca Club. :hi:

 

[Barb_D]

Since I haven't even mastered how to use it, it would be presumptuous on my part to pretend to know what to call it!

 

[pinkie9]

Thank you, everyone.
I decided to e-mail COCA to ask about this.
I'll post here if I get a reply.;-)

 

[Tdol]

Welcome to the the Coca Club. :hi:

Given that one of the words is missing from acronym, it smacks of a word rather than initials to me.

 

[pinkie9]

I got a reply from the creator of COCA! So fast! :shock:
It says:

Like in COCA-COLA. That's why the historical corpus (http://corpus.byu.edu/coha) is COHA -- so that together they are pronounced as COCA-COHA, like COCA COLA.

Very Interesting, isn't it? :-D