Collocates are an especially fruitful realm of exploration. Returning to our Toronto plaque example, if we look for the colocates of ‘York’ we see several interesting results: “Fort” (referring to the military installation Fort York), “Infantry,” “Mills” (the area of York Mills), “radial” (referring to the York Radial Railway), and even slang such as “Muddy” (“Muddy York” being a Toronto nickname). With several documents, one could trace how collocates change over time: perhaps early documents refer to Fort York and subsequently we see more collocates referring to North York? Finally, AntConc also provides options for overall word and phrase frequency, as well as specific n-gram searching.