Usage annotations

[1313ou]

Following Francis Bond's remark that a number of examples are actually usage annotations, not examples, I propose to have a new section 'usage' that collects these (and also, later, fragments of definitions that similarly deal with usage)

I know that some of these usage notes can also - sometimes - be expressed by sense relations (notably domain_region/has_domain_region or exemplifies/is_exemplified_by), in which case the 'usage' section may turn out to be a transitional scratchpad.

But expressing usage with a relation requires identifying proper targets (Britain, UK, British English ...?) within a predefined set... that hasn't been defined yet: it's still open.

Beyond geographical locations, I found the following:
'archaic', 'dialectal', 'euphemistic', 'slang', 'literary', 'formal', 'legal', 'vulgar', 'frequent'
Should we link with the adjective, the noun ... ?

Other usage notes resist being expressed as relations:

• ‘Scotch’ is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland
• ‘continual’ is often used interchangeably with ‘continuous’
• in careful usage the noun `enormity´ is not used to express the idea of great size

These usage annotations may be ignored in XML output until the schema defines them or tags them with dc:something. However, some YAML tools will have to be updated, to ensure these usage notes are persistent across changes.

I'm not updating the python scripts as these are bound to disappear.

[jmccrae]

Thanks for this. Can you create an issue to discuss this, as it would require updating more than just the data files?

For reference here are the most common senses used for 'usage by exemplifies':

Sense	Frequency
British spelling	1825
American spelling	1825
Australian spelling	1801
Canadian spelling	461
trade name	298
British English	143
American English	95
trademark	82
Canadian English	28
colloquialism	7
slang	7
archaism	7
plural	4
plural form	3
derogation	2
obscenity	1
Scots English	1
French	1
ethnic slur	1
slur	1

And these are the most common synsets:

Synset	Freq
depreciation, derogation, disparagement	624
colloquialism	288
plural, plural form	246
cant, slang, jargon, patois, argot, lingo, vernacular	84
trademark	83
archaicism, archaism	69
obscenity, vulgarism, smut, dirty word, filth	46
Yiddish	45
combining form	39
intensifier, intensive	22
figure, image, trope, figure of speech	16
ethnic slur	15
comparative, comparative degree	13
Black English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular, Black Vernacular English, AAVE, African American English, African American Vernacular English, Ebonics	9
euphemism	7
superlative	7
formality	6
brand, brand name, trade name, marque	6
portmanteau, blend, portmanteau word	6
French, French language	5
initialism, acronym	5
idiom, phrase, idiomatic expression, set phrase, phrasal idiom	3
irony	3
idiom, dialect, accent	3
regionalism	2
synecdoche	2
humor, humour, wittiness, wit, witticism	2
street name	1
racial discrimination, racialism, racism	1
fishnet stockings	1
crimper, crimping pliers	1
salopettes, ski pants	1
Lysoform	1
Cebion	1
entryphone	1
abbreviation	1