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Old 04-Apr-2005, 09:13
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Default Re: 100 million word British National Corpus.
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Originally Posted by M56

So you can see why I have a preference for the BNC.
The BNC obviously has tools that target language, which give it a clear edge over Google; I am only proposing Googling as a way of getting people into the basic idea. However, one thing in Google's favour is that it has the widest and most inclusive database of any tool.
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