"Deppenapostrophe": Is English guilty after all?
Language Log 2024-10-12
Summary:
Andreas Stolcke responds to "English is innocent" (10/10/2024): The historical facts cited are correct, but they don't explain why the frequency of 's rose in the post-WW2 period, and again after about 2005 (= the internet), as indicated by the Google Ngram plot below. The bump in the post-war era (after 1957) could be an […]