Reksulak, Michael; II, William F. Shughart; Tollison, … - In: Southern Economic Journal 71 (2004) 2, pp. 232-259
This article examines systematically the growth of the English language from the year 252 ce through 1985. Using a data set collected from the CD-ROM version of the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, we characterize the time series of new words added to the language, by year,...