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The British National Corpus (or just BNC) is a
100-million-word collection of samples of written and spoken
English from a wide range of sources. It was compiled as a
general
corpus (text collection) in the field of
corpus linguistics. The corpus covers British English of the
late twentieth century from a wide variety of genres with the
intention that it be a representative sample of spoken and
written British English of that time.
See also
External links
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British National Corpus website
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VIEW query interface for the BNC
Categories:
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