ABSTRACT
This chapter provides many examples of how the BYU corpora (which include COCA, COHA, GloWbE, NOW, and the Google Books corpus) can be used to find frequency data for particular words and phrases (especially those related to interesting socio-cultural phenomena), to carry out mass comparisons of lexis in different dialects and time periods, and to compare collocates in different sections of the corpora to compare the meaning of words (and what is being said about particular concepts) in different time periods and in different English dialects.
