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The corpus contains approximately 50 million words of text. The
table below summarizes the texts by decade and genre, and you can also
download a full listing of all 1135
texts.
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1920s-1940s |
1950s-1970s |
1980s |
1990s |
2000s |
2010s |
TOTAL |
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SPOKEN |
texts |
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3 |
167 |
6 |
176 |
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words |
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94,527 |
5,592,381 |
187,689 |
5,874,597 |
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FICTION |
texts |
23 |
4 |
19 |
36 |
19 |
4 |
105 |
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|
words |
1,739,983 |
329,263 |
506,611 |
860,022 |
452,736 |
12,766 |
3,901,381 |
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MAGAZINES |
texts |
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46 |
88 |
172 |
2 |
308 |
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|
words |
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1,388,416 |
2,185,009 |
6,359,030 |
55,358 |
9,987,814 |
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NEWSPAPERS |
texts |
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11 |
37 |
121 |
4 |
173 |
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words |
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835,569 |
1,805,388 |
9,948,930 |
510,807 |
13,100,695 |
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NONFICTION |
texts |
13 |
3 |
10 |
10 |
2,801 |
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2,837 |
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words |
761,739 |
172,617 |
735,567 |
822,731 |
2,728 |
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2,495,382 |
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ACADEMIC |
texts |
6 |
5 |
44 |
78 |
155 |
7 |
295 |
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words |
125,134 |
193,961 |
1,996,289 |
2,523,454 |
9,575,865 |
230,650 |
14,645,353 |
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MISC |
texts |
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31 |
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10 |
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41 |
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words |
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49,437 |
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26,620 |
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76,057 |
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TOTAL |
texts |
42 |
12 |
161 |
252 |
3,445 |
23 |
3,935 |
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words |
2,626,857 |
695,841 |
5,511,889 |
8,291,131 |
31,958,290 |
997,271 |
50,081,279 |
Note: The Excel spreadsheet shown above contains complete information on the
texts used in the corpus. The [textID] column refers to the [t] value in
the URL in the [title] column of the Keyword in Context display. For
example, if the URL is http://corpus2.byu.edu/can/x4.asp?t=631&ID=30637060,
then the [textID] is [631], and this corresponds to [Maclean's. February
24, 1986]
in the speadsheet.
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