COCA Corpus of Contemporary American English (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> Thanks for the COCA site edress
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> http://www.americancorpus.org/
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> This site has a word frequency list of the most popular 5k words in
> English.  I wonder where the words are from - newspapers? internet?.
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The home page for the site says right there: " The corpus contains more
than 400 million words of text and is equally divided among spoken,
fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts."
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