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It might appear to be one of the more useful words in the English language, but according to research by a linguistics professor, use of the definite article “the” has declined “radically” over the last century. Mark Liberman, Christopher H Browne distinguished professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, has analysed the frequency of “the” in US presidential State of the Union addresses, finding that the average frequency of “the” in addresses between 2004 and 2013 was 47,458 per million words. Yet in the first 10 addresses, which took place between 1790 and 1799, it was 93,201 per million words, almost double the frequency.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:41:19 +0000

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