Acronym for British National Corpus, a large collection of British English texts used for linguistic research. Also refers to BNC connector, a type of RF connector used in electronics.
As British National Corpus: established in the 1990s as a collaborative project between universities and publishers to create a representative sample of British English. As connector: named after its inventors Amphenol (Neill-Concelman) and its bayonet coupling mechanism.
The BNC contains over 100 million words of British English from the 1980s-90s, making it a time capsule of how Britons actually spoke and wrote during the Thatcher era - capturing everything from academic papers to casual conversations in pubs.
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