On 17 March, some editions of The Wall Street Journal carried an article entitled "The New Science of the Birth and Death of Words" (subtitle: "Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google's library?"). You can read a summary here.
You can play with the Google Ngram viewer yourself here.
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OSASCOMP = Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Colour, Origin, Material, Purpose QOSASCOMP = Quantity, Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Colour, Origin, ... -
I've been looking for comments and information on the trend adopted by some newspapers and magazines regarding kickers, straplines, or w... -
It's a good question. Attempts to explain what is meant usually get bogged down after just a few paragraphs. So how about explaining ...
