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#Middle-English
Osx Dictionary
Relish
relish |ˈreliSH| noun 1 great enjoyment: she swigged a mouthful of wine with relish. • liking for or pleasurable anticipation of something: I was appointed to a position for which I had little relish. 2 a condiment eaten with plain food to add flavor: use salsa as a relish with…
Quantifying The Evolutionary Dynamics Of Language
The rate of language regularization depends on the frequency of word usage
Human language is based on grammatical rules. Cultural evolution allows these rules to change over time. Rules compete with each other: as new rules rise to prominence, old ones die away. To quantify the dynamics of language evolution, we studied the regularization of English…