CORPORA/DATABASES:
| The British National Corpus (BNC) | a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English, both spoken and written, from the late twentieth century |
| The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) | contains more than 520 million words of text and is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts |
| NOW Corpus (News on the Web) | contains data from web-based newspapers and magazines from 2010 to the present time |
STYLE GUIDES, MANUALS
| English Style Guide | DG Translation in-house style guide |
| Interinstitutional Style Guide â for English | |
| Clear English for EU translators | Tips on translating into English |
| Guide for contractors translating for the European Commission | European Commission |
| Translation checklist | European Commission |
| Translation quality info sheets for contractors | European Commission |
| How to write clearly | European Commission booklet (all EU languages) |
| Claire’s clear writing tips | practical tips (in English and French) expanding upon How to write clearly [November 2016] |
EU
| Eur-Lex | access to European Union Law |
| Administrative structure of the European Union | official titles and listing order |
| Commission directorates-general and services: official titles |
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| Main acronyms and initialisms | |
| Institutions, bodies, interinstitutional services and organisations: multilingual list |
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DICTIONARIES
| Oxford English Dictionary | |
| Collins English Dictionary | |
| Online dictionary of language terminology | |
| Legal dictionary | |
| Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries | |
| English Oxford Living Dictionaries |
OTHER RESOURCES
| Acronyms | |
| List of countries, territories and currencies | |
| Misused English words and expressions in EU publications | |
| English around the globe |