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CORPUS OF GLOBAL WEB-BASED ENGLISH (GloWbE)

The Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE) is composed of 1.9 billion words from 1.8 million web pages in 20 different English-speaking countries. Released in April 2013.

GloWbE is related to other large corpora that we have created, including the 450 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English (COHA). Together, these three corpora allow researchers to examine variation in English -- by dialect, genre, and over time -- in ways that are not possible with any other large corpora of English.

The real power of GloWbE is the ability to see the frequency of any word, phrase, or grammatical construction in each of the 20 different countries. You can also compare any features in two sets of dialects, such as British and American English. Or you could just limit your search to one or two countries (e.g. Australia, South Africa, or Singapore).

In terms of searches, with GloWbE you can study an extremely wide range of phenomena: words, phrases, grammatical constructions, synonyms, customized lists, and collocates (nearby words, which provide insight into meaning and usage).