the American National Corpus (2003)
google (1998)
the BNC (1994)
the COLT corpus (1993)
the Flob corpus (1992)
the Frown corpus (1992)
the Helsinki corpus of english texts (1991)
the ICLE corpus (1990)
the Wellington Corpus of Written New Zealand English (1990)
the International Corpus of English (1990)
the Bank of English (1990)
the Text Encoding Initiative (1987)
the Childes database (1984)
the Corpus of English-Canadian Writing (1984)
the Tosca Research Group (1980)
the COBUILD project (1980)
the LOB corpus (1978)
the Kolhapur Corpus of Indian English (1978)
the SSE Corpus (1975)
Project Gutenberg (1971)
the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (1969)
A Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English (1967) by Henry Kucera and Nelson Francis
the Brown Corpus (1967)
ICAME (1960s)
Project Xanadu (1960) was founded by Ted Nelson as the original hypertext project
the SEU Corpus (1959)
the Defining Vocabulary (1935) 2000 of the most
common words, was invented by Longman
the Oxford English dictionary (1884)
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) by Samuel Johnson
Cruden's Concordance (1737)