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Web VP / BNC-20 v 3.2 British National Corpus lists version (Beta)
[LISTS UNDER REVISION - See first 14 lists here , and last 6 lists here , and typical profiles here ]
Input mode A: Type or paste smaller text (<2000 words) below and click Submit_window

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INSTRUCTIONS: Type or paste your text here and click the SUBMIT_window button. VocabProfile will tell you how many words the text contains from 20 frequency bands of roughly 1,000 word families in size from the 100 million word British National Corpus. For a demonstration, enter this text, or one of the sample texts below. TEXT SET-UP General: Include an empty space after every comma or full stop. Research: Deal with spelling errors and proper nouns. SIZE LIMITS: Web input is normally limited to 30,000 characters - use UPLOAD method below for larger files (up to 1000 kb or 1 MB as of Dec 2005; must be ~.txt; send in straight from your own hard drive). Text is NOT stored on Web VP's server
Demo showing June 09 additions: Rex M. | Demo showing AWL in BNC: AWL        

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On-List Proper Nouns to recategorize as 1k. (E.g. "George Bush"). None

ALL Off-List Propers => 1k With Mid-Sentence-Caps algo  *

Plus any strays or user choices (E.g., ". Paul Martin") None

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Input mode B: Upload larger text files (To max 1.5 MB, depends on traffic, processor, etc)

1. own drive for file; and then     2.    Capped non-initials = 1k

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First 14 BNC family lists by P. Nation, VUW New Zealand; 16-20 by T. Cobb, UQAM Canada.