TextCorpora is a helper package that provides an interface for various corpora. It was originally written for use in the ReadingLevel library. It is provided as a separate package for convenience - both to faciliate use of corpora in other applications and libraries, and also to allow users of the ReadingLevel library the ability to plug in an alternative corpus if desired.

The location for each corpus is stored in a location provided by appdirs. For example, on Linux, the current version of the CMU corpus will be downloaded and saved to ~/.local/share/cmudict/.1/cmudict.0.7a.corpus.