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English
# words
language/dialect
time period
compare
! Global Web-Based English (GloWbE)
1.9 billion
20 countries
2012-13
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
450 million
American
1990-2012
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Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)
400 million
1810-2009
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TIME Magazine Corpus
100 million
1923-2006
Corpus of American Soap Operas
2001-2012
British National Corpus (BYU-BNC)*
British
1980s-1993
Strathy Corpus (Canada)
50 million
Canadian
1970s-2000s
Other languages
Corpus del Español
Spanish
1200s-1900s
*
Corpus do Português
45 million
Portuguese
1300s-1900s
N-grams
Google Books: American English
155 billion
1500s-2000s
Google Books: British English
34 billion
Google Books: One Million Books
89 billion
Am/Br
* Our architecture and interface to the BNC, which is distributed by IT Services (formerly OUCS) at Oxford University (on behalf of the BNC Consortium)