Terms that are direct analogs to sexual intercourse are widely used to describe connector ends, but the language is evolving away from those problematic words.
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Words of the year do not have to be new coinages, but may be existing words that seem to have become particularly apposite or resonant.
‘Year’ and ‘time’ are the two most frequent nouns in British English.
Accents are constantly changing.
Technology has brought significant changes to the way we use language.
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Professor in Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics, University of Cambridge
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Director of Slang and New Language Archive, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London
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Assistant Professor of English, University of Northern Colorado
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Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication, Iowa State University