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Originally Posted by deepsand
Any stats. on how many are judged to be obsolescent/obsolete/archaic, and at what rate?
Or, what percent of the population's static and/or dynamic vocabularies contain any given word?
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There was a good article on that and I can't find it. I read the 'Story of English' a while back which was really quite interesting and, if I recall, hypothesized that, as a result of standardization, mass literacy and a national media that the language was harmonizing resulting in less divergence in pronounciation.