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All living languages change, which is why every generation produces its crop of complaints about what is usually thought of as the ‘corruption’ of the language, for as we get older we resent the way the language is being changed by younger people. It is particularly vocabulary which attracts the wrath of those who believe that language should be kept ‘pure’, though language changes in every feature: spelling, punctuation, sounds, morphology, syntax, word-formation and vocabulary.
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© 1993 N.F. Blake and Jean Moorhead
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Blake, N.F., Moorhead, J. (1993). Language Change. In: Introduction to English Language. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22869-0_3
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