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Old 01-Apr-2005, 08:24
M56
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Default Re: 100 million word British National Corpus.

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Originally Posted by tdol
It has many limitations, but it is a very good way to get people started, and is good for frequency, geography, etc. If people look carefully at the results, they might be able to amalyse register themselves- if it's all fromm business texts, say, then that gives clues. It doesn't offer the clever searches, though.

www.onelook.com is another handy tool with wildcards for basic things like prefixes and suffixes.
Which limitations have you identified and is there a better free source?

<If people look carefully at the results, they might be able to amalyse register themselves- >

Even NNES?

<It doesn't offer the clever searches, though. >

For example?

<www.onelook.com is another handy tool with wildcards for basic things like prefixes and suffixes. [/>

Does onelook provide information on text type or register?

Last edited by M56; 01-Apr-2005 at 08:27.
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