Re: Measuring language change

Hawksinger wrote:
> Word taboos associated with the names of the dead are also important
> in Australia.
Quite true, and it seems to have been carried over, at least in part,
into Aborigine English.  I've heard of a group that, after a member
named "Jack" died, had to use "letter" to replace "check" (in the
financial sense).

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