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British National Corpus (1994)
Best viewed at the reference desk.
- Cost
- 6 RAM
- Power
- 13
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Institutions
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- The Establishment
What it does
No ability.
No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.
It costs 6 RAM to play and brings 13 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Institutions cards protect your side, and come back strong when you're losing.
The site, in 1994
A 100-million-word collection of samples of written and spoken English, taken from a wide range of sources.
It covers British English of the late 20th century, and was meant to be a fair sample of how the language was written and spoken then. Researchers use it in corpus linguistics.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1994 page.
Put it on your site
Run British National Corpus, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1994. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1994, then plays a short scene. Want British National Corpus in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
