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The '''Oxford English Corpus''' is a list of one billion [[word]]s taken from written examples of [[English]] from around the world.<ref>[http://www.askoxford.com/oec/mainpage/oec02/?view=uk "Facts about the language" askoxford.com]</ref> | The '''Oxford English Corpus''' is a list of one billion [[word]]s taken from written examples of [[English]] from around the world.<ref>[http://www.askoxford.com/oec/mainpage/oec02/?view=uk "Facts about the language" askoxford.com]</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 22:35, 16 May 2009
The Oxford English Corpus is a list of one billion words taken from written examples of English from around the world.[1]
The words are taken from literary novels and specialist journals to everyday newspapers and magazines and from Hansard to the language of chatrooms, emails, and weblogs.[2]
See also
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