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Starting in March 2015,
you can download full-text data from the
Corpus of Historical American
English (COHA), as well as from
COCA and
GloWbE. The COHA data
includes 385 million words of text in 116,000 different
texts from the 1810s-2000s, in fiction, popular magazines,
newspapers, and non-fiction (books). COHA is
much larger
than any other
structured historical corpus of English, and allows for a
wide range of research on English that is uniquely available
with this corpus.
SEE FULL LIST OF ALL
116,000 TEXTS
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# WORDS |
# TEXTS |
| DECADE |
FIC |
MAG |
NEWS |
NON-FIC |
TOTAL |
FIC |
MAG |
NEWS |
NON-FIC |
TOTAL |
| 1810s |
609,647 |
84,038 |
|
429,116 |
1,122,801 |
43 |
16 |
|
4 |
63 |
| 1820s |
3,565,112 |
1,630,671 |
|
1,388,562 |
6,584,345 |
90 |
209 |
|
31 |
330 |
| 1830s |
7,214,157 |
2,983,022 |
|
2,887,273 |
13,084,452 |
181 |
367 |
|
64 |
612 |
| 1840s |
8,410,937 |
3,379,668 |
|
3,402,296 |
15,192,901 |
248 |
297 |
|
71 |
616 |
| 1850s |
8,644,120 |
4,000,248 |
|
2,941,073 |
15,585,441 |
150 |
443 |
|
54 |
647 |
| 1860s |
8,993,873 |
4,219,745 |
250,924 |
2,758,475 |
16,223,017 |
253 |
470 |
309 |
51 |
1,083 |
| 1870s |
9,765,352 |
4,233,557 |
983,362 |
2,648,104 |
17,630,375 |
215 |
487 |
1136 |
47 |
1,885 |
| 1880s |
10,660,994 |
4,235,147 |
1,298,591 |
2,893,151 |
19,087,883 |
267 |
575 |
1812 |
55 |
2,709 |
| 1890s |
10,648,924 |
4,449,545 |
1,323,013 |
2,882,718 |
19,304,200 |
261 |
589 |
2020 |
65 |
2,935 |
| 1900s |
11,433,161 |
4,813,860 |
1,386,724 |
3,233,895 |
20,867,640 |
268 |
1085 |
1531 |
98 |
2,982 |
| 1910s |
11,345,597 |
5,414,450 |
1,467,915 |
3,359,146 |
21,587,108 |
292 |
1172 |
1781 |
110 |
3,355 |
| 1920s |
11,917,338 |
5,814,623 |
3,451,743 |
3,142,225 |
24,325,929 |
281 |
6876 |
4302 |
102 |
11,561 |
| 1930s |
11,278,909 |
5,741,816 |
3,463,421 |
2,922,825 |
23,406,971 |
533 |
5500 |
4221 |
101 |
10,355 |
| 1940s |
11,344,827 |
5,539,757 |
3,383,432 |
2,899,002 |
23,167,018 |
420 |
6763 |
4069 |
93 |
11,345 |
| 1950s |
11,380,685 |
5,652,995 |
3,387,713 |
2,934,583 |
23,355,976 |
471 |
7018 |
4350 |
96 |
11,935 |
| 1960s |
10,993,642 |
5,575,234 |
3,257,501 |
2,981,151 |
22,807,528 |
404 |
5604 |
4010 |
96 |
10,114 |
| 1970s |
11,035,310 |
5,468,365 |
3,226,185 |
2,851,622 |
22,581,482 |
336 |
5232 |
3766 |
89 |
9,423 |
| 1980s |
11,535,827 |
5,672,882 |
3,909,059 |
2,911,529 |
24,029,297 |
340 |
6886 |
3787 |
96 |
11,109 |
| 1990s |
12,595,275 |
7,150,952 |
3,856,579 |
2,951,476 |
26,554,282 |
1733 |
5322 |
2361 |
366 |
9,782 |
| 2000s |
13,805,514 |
7,394,632 |
3,899,472 |
2,970,827 |
28,070,445 |
4218 |
6396 |
2341 |
947 |
13,902 |
| TOTAL |
197,179,201 |
93,455,207 |
38,545,634 |
55,389,049 |
384,569,091 |
11,004 |
61,307 |
41,796 |
2,636 |
116,743 |
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