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The estimation is based on subtitles of British television programs. We show that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision times of the British Lexicon Project than the word frequencies based on the British National Corpus and the SUBTLEX-US frequencies. In addition to the word form frequencies, we also present measures of contextual diversity, part-of-speech specific word frequencies, word frequencies in children programs, and word bigram frequencies, giving researchers of British English access to the full range of norms recently made available for other languages