According to researchers at Reading University, the words “squeeze”, “guts”, “stick” and “bad” are most likely the first to become extinct in the evolution of English. “Their computer model analyses the rate of change of words in English and the languages that share a common heritage,” reports BBC News. The same team has identified “I”, “we”, “two” and “three” as the English language’s oldest words.
Interesting . . .
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