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Linguistic Drift - The Wordsmith's Forge
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07:40 pm November 3rd, 2017
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Linguistic Drift
In addition to logical, evolutionary changes languages also experience random drift.

But I'm still grateful to Vikings for counting goats instead of gat.

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From: rhodielady_47 Date: November 6th, 2017 04:37 am (UTC) (Link)
Thank you. I enjoyed reading that.
I plan on playing with Google's Ngram Viewer when I get a bit of time to do so.
What words would you look up?
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