NP: New Word Use

Henry M scuffling at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 10:20:41 CST 2009


http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=call-me-melville-based-on-new-word-09-12-11
"Swedish physicists investigated how frequently authors use new words in
their writing. This, they say, offers clearly identifiable patterns. The
research goes against a belief held for more than 75 years that there’s a
sort of universality to how frequently authors use new words."
-- 
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20

AsB4,

Henry
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