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British National Corpus

Alias search terms

BNC

Target URL

http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

Guide link

http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/faq.xml?ID=corpus

Description

The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of real life language. The samples were chosen from a wide range of sources and are designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English from the later part of the 20th century. It includes speech (10%) as well as a wide variety of different kinds of written (90%) language.