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The Magic of Reality
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Sean Faircloth:
Attack of the Theocrats!
In 2010, Language Log did a thorough and quite fascinating post about this phenomenon: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2570. They traced its history by using The Corpus of Historical American English, which is a really useful tool for quantitative research on the evolution of language.
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