In “Building a corpus: what are key considerations?” [Reppen posits that]: “[a] corpus is Vide 1 when exploring issues or questions related to language use. The wide range of Vide 2 related to language use that can be addressed through a corpus is a strength of this approach. Questions that range from the level of words and intonation to how constellations of Vide 3 features work together in discourse can all be explored through corpus linguistic methods and tools. Questions related to aspects of how language Vide 4 varies by situation or over time are also ideal areas to explore through Vide 5 research. Having a clearly articulated research question is an essential first step in corpus construction, since this will guide the design of the corpus. The corpus must be representative of the language being Vide 6 . If the goal is to describe the language of newspaper editorials, collecting personal letters would not be representative of the language of Vide 7 editorials; neither would collecting entire newspapers be representative of the language found in the editorial section. There must be a match between the language being examined and the type of Vide 8 being collected (Biber 1993). Representativeness is closely linked to size,(p.13) The question of corpus size is a difficult one. There is not a specific number of words that answers this question. Corpus size is certainly not a case of one size fits all (Carter and McCarthy 2001). For explorations that are designed to capture all the Vide 9 of a particular word or set of words, as in building a dictionary, the corpus needs to be large, very large – tens or hundreds of millions of words. However, for most questions that are pursued by corpus Vide 10 , the question of size is resolved by two factors: representativeness (Have I collected enough texts [words] to accurately represent the type of language under investigation?) and practicality (time Vide 11 ). Smaller, specialized corpora, such as the examples noted earlier, can be very useful