Corpora: Freely accessible Corpus of American English

[Ruth Möhlig]

I have two questions:

1) is there any freely accessible, fairly recent corpus of American English
(preferrably both written and spoken and preferrably searchable with
Wordsmith)?

2) is there any way of accessing the Bank of English (Cobuilt) corpus?


Thank you,

Ruth Möhlig, Englisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln