Language trends run in mysterious 14-year cycles

Words move in and out of favour over 14 years
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By Sophia Chen
The media tends to interpret culture in yearly cycles. Critics publish end-of-year best-of lists and Oxford Dictionaries just selected “post-truth” as its word of the year. But the words w...

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