Our language is ever-changing, evolving all the time as words fall out of use or acquire new meanings. We only need to look back at the works of greats like Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens to see how ...
What seems different about 21st-century English is the speed with which these changes spread and are adopted—at least ...
The study of intensifiers has emerged as a dynamic field in linguistics, revealing how seemingly simple modifiers such as “really”, “so”, and “very” play a crucial role in shaping meaning and ...