A Statistical Study in the Use of Academic English Idioms
How academic English vocabulary usage is changing by time.
It is not a secret that the academic vocabulary table of the English language has been having new terms and idioms, changing by time, and affecting by other languages’ academic vocabulary tables.
I am going to use “Google Ngram Viewer” to display graphs showing how some academic terms have occurred in “British English” and “American English” books over the period “1800–2000”.
1- Academic /akəˈdɛmɪk/: Which is an adjective relating to education and scholarship. For instance, we say “Academic achievement” and “Academic research”. Although It’s derivative from the medieval Latin “Academicus”, this word had not been commonly used in the literature of the English language before 1900. We can see in the diagram below how this word has been used in more than 0.003% of the literature’s words, (i.e. it is used three times in every one hundred thousand written words).
It seemed to be a small number, but it is not. We are not talking only about academic books, this result was taken over all English books on the…
