Change in vocabulary also involves ffuctuations in the faddishness, voguishness, popularity, or centrality of words. The stylishness of words is difficult to attest objectively, but some words are clearly a mirror of the times in which they are used. They are keywords... 

The percentages of words formed in English and of those borrowed from other languages in the recent corpuses contrast strikingly with those in The Shorter OED, as reported by Thomas Finkenstaedt (1973, 118-56). In the following table, the SOED percentages represent... 

Estimates of the relative productiveness of one or another type of word formation are subject to many variables and consequently uncertainties. Not least among those is establishing the correct etymology of a word. For example, unconscious 'that part of the mind... 

Non-European languages have also been important sources of new words. Since the seventeenth century, English has been borrowing from the languages of India, especially Hindi but also the unrelated Tamil and several others. Of the more than 1,000 loanwords listed... 

Greek and Latin formatives are highly productive sources for new technical terms coined in English. Consequently, very recent words in the scientific and technical registers that look like loans from the classical languages may actually have been formed within... 

German over many years has provided English with a good many loanwords, not all easily recognisable. German has been a prolific source of words for the sciences: mathematics, physics, chemistry and biochemistry, biology including botany and zoology, geology and... 

The prominence of Japanese is recent and is closely linked to the rise of Japan as a major economic power in the late twentieth century. This is not to say that most Japanese loans are economic terms or names for trade objects. On the contrary, they range over...