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The Billion-Word Crystal Ball: How Corpus Linguistics Predicts the Future of Language

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Ever wonder how new words like ‘rizz’ make it into the dictionary or why grammar rules seem to change over time? The answer lies in corpus linguistics, a fascinating field that uses massive, billion-word databases to analyze language as it’s actually used. This data-driven approach not only chronicles our language’s past but can even help predict its future.