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The Bank of English is the name of the
COBUILD
corpus, a collection of English texts. These are mainly
British, but American and Australian data are also included.
The majority of the texts are from written English, but there
is also a large component of spoken data. The corpus totals 525
million running words as of
2005.
Copies of the corpus are held both at
HarperCollins Publishers and the
University of Birmingham. The version at Birmingham can be
accessed for academic research.
The Bank of English forms part of the
Collins Word Web together with the French, German and
Spanish corpora.
See also
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British National Corpus
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corpus linguistics
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COBUILD
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