Digital spell-checking may be killing off words
Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 13:00
in Mathematics & Economics
The death rate of words has apparently increased recently while new entries into languages are becoming less common, both perhaps because of digital spell-checking, according to a Google-aided analysis of more than 10 million words.
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