Table 1 Different genres and their size in COCA (1990–2015)
From: A thematic corpus-based study of idioms in the Corpus of Contemporary American English
Genre | Spoken | Fiction | Magazine | Newspaper | Academic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
number of words | 107,973,088 | 103,418,530 | 109,014,187 | 104,618,087 | 103,295,116 |