We’re all interested in where English words came from and how the language evolved. But how can we do some research of our own into this? In this episode Richard, Ben and Hannah are joined by Dr Will Standing, who talks us through some of the digital resources which are freely available for researching the history of a language, including Google Ngrams, British National Corpus, and the EMMA corpus (which Will helped to develop). On the way we learn what the word ‘multiloquent’ means, and what an 'it-cleft' construction is, and Will and Ben share something about their historical-linguistic tattoos.
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