Primary sources

• Royal Skousen, ed., The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text (New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2009). Available as a precisely searchable, tagged WordCruncher ebook.
• Royal Skousen, The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text (Provo, UT: FARMS and BYU, 2001).
• Royal Skousen, The Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Entire Text in Two Parts (Provo, UT: FARMS and BYU, 2001).
• Royal Skousen, The History of the Text of the Book of Mormon, 8 parts (Provo, UT: FARMS and BYU Studies, 2016–2025):
   Parts 1 and 2: Grammatical Variation (2016) [GV]
   Parts 3 and 4: The Nature of the Original Language (2018) [NOL]
   Part 5: The King James Quotations in the Book of Mormon (2019) [KJQ]
   Part 6: Spelling in the Manuscripts and Editions (2020) [SPL]
   Part 7: The Early Transmissions of the Text (2024) [TXT]
   Part 8: Textual Criticism of the Book of Mormon (2025) [CRT]
• Royal Skousen, Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, 6 parts (Provo, UT: FARMS and BYU, 2004–2009); Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, 6 parts, 2nd edition (Provo, UT: FARMS and BYU Studies, 2018). [ATV]
• The King James Bible (1611), as well as other early modern Bibles: Tyndale’s Pentateuch (1530), Tyndale’s New Testament (1534), the Coverdale Bible (1535), the Great Bible (1540), the Geneva Bible (1561), the Bishops’ Bible (1568), the Rheims New Testament (1582), and the Douay Old Testament (1609–10).
• Early English Books Online (EEBO): about 60,000 texts (1473–1700), about 1.45 billion words. Phase 1 has 25,368 texts and about 767 million words. Phase 2 has 34,958 texts and about 708 million words. Available as a WordCruncher ebook.
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): about 195,000 texts and 9.4 billion words (mostly late modern, but many earlier texts). First 70 years has about 107,000 texts and 5.0 billion words. Last 30 years has about 88,000 texts and 4.4 billion words.
• Evans Early American Imprints Online: 5,012 texts, about 100 million words. Available as a WordCruncher ebook. (This database also has many British writings later published in America.)
• Google Books • Ngram Viewer : In 2024, Google Books had about 20.5 billion words from 1801 to 1829, but it had only about 4.9 billion words from 1470 to 1800.
• Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, online edition;
  Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition (1989).
• Pseudo-archaic writings [1740–1888]: twenty-five texts, about 582,500 words. Available as a WordCruncher ebook.

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