The current study investigates how Slavic peoples and languages are talked about, and thus conceptualized, in three major English-speaking countries. It uses corpora of British, American, and Canadian English to determine collocates – terms that particularly frequently appear together with the search terms – to answer this research question. Methodologically, the British National Corpus, the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the Canadian Strathy are used to determine the collocates of the search terms Russian, Polish, Slavic and Sorbian. The study finds that in these corpora, Russian traits focus on political and military power, while in discourses on Polish topics, relations to its neighbours, the fate of its Jewish populations before and during WWII, and its farming and working-class population are particularly frequent. Slavic is mostly used as a uniting feature of different languages and cultures, as well as a feature of physical, especially facial, beauty, while Sorbs and Sorbian are centrally conceptualised as a minority under threat.