ABSTRACT
Most previous linguistic studies of web language have focused on ‘new’ internet registers like blogs, internet forums, instant messages, and tweets. As a result, we know surprisingly little about the patterns of linguistic variation among the full range of registers found on the searchable web. In a series of studies, we have begun to fill this gap by applying multi-dimensional analysis to describe the patterns of register variation in a large corpus of documents from the searchable web (using the GloWbE corpus). This chapter summarizes those earlier results and then builds on that analysis to explore linguistic differences among Inner Circle regional dialects of English.
