When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years. User Guide.
A web-based text reading and analysis environment that enables users to read and explore a corpus of text using a multi-panel interface. Created by Stefan Sinclair of McGill University and Geoffrey Rockwell of the University of Alberta for digital humanities students and scholars, the general public, and those new to digital humanities. Getting Started Guide
Add content to a text box or use text from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and see medium and lower frequency word lists, their definitions/use based on COCA data, and compare phrases with similar ones found in the COCA, adding a thesaurus-like function.
