 In July 2014, Cambridge University Press and the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) announced at Lancaster University that a new British National Corpus - the BNC2014 - was under compilation.The first stage of the collaborative project between the two institutions was to compile a new spoken corpus of British English from the early to mid 2010s.The 11.5-million-word Spoken British National Corpus 2014 was released to the public on 25 September 2017.