The freely searchable 450-million-word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest corpus of American English currently available, and the only publicly available corpus of American English to contain a wide array of texts from a number of genres.
It was created by Mark Davies, Professor of Corpus Linguistics at Brigham Young University.
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“By that bedes side ther kneleth a may,
And she wepeth both nyght and day.
And by that beddes side ther stondith a ston,
‘Corpus Christi’wretyn theron.”
—Unknown. Corpus Christi Carol (l. 11–14)
“I have the strong impression that contemporary middle-class women do seem prone to feelings of inadequacy. We worry that we do not measure up to some undefined level, some mythical idealized female standard. When we see some women juggling with apparent ease, we suspect that we are grossly inadequate for our own obvious struggles.”
—Faye J. Crosby (20th century)
“Alex Sebastian: Mother, mother.
Mrs. Sebastian: Why are you up so early?
Alex: I need your help.
Mrs. Sebastian: Something is wrong?
Alex: A great deal.... I am married to an American agent.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“The English are a nation of consummate cant.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)