words
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The Top Words Of The Year Are “404” And “Fail”
No matter how you feel about 2013 it’s depressing to learn that the two most popular words of the year, according to the Global Language Monitor, are “404” and “fail”. You can’t paint a clearer picture than that.
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The Longest Words In Different Languages Are So Fun To Say
Though we know the real longest word in English takes three and a half hours to pronounce, more reasonable ones can be done in less than five million breaths. Like these ones!
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The Evolution Of English Language Over The Last 500 Years
Unsurprisingly, a lot’s changed since the 1500s, not least of all language. But now a physicist has crunched through 5.2 million books published over five centuries in order to analyse the way the English language has changed over time.