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Younger speakers are no longer pronouncing “prize” as “prahz”: https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southeast/are-southern-accents-fading-away-with-time-one-study-says-yes/#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20Georgia%20said,%27t%2C%E2%80%9D%20Renwick%20said.

At the site where Hittite was discovered, archeologists have discovered another ancient Indo-European language, which remains largely undeciphered. https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/new-indo-european-language-discovered/

Or is it even possible? The answer is complicated: https://theconversation.com/do-accents-disappear-192548?fbclid=IwAR3EDIgIcS_eyd2AgoFV9azJx25lKmW_x-UsUdSGq0vnSiMSIycZTwnmNGM

And what about “sir”? https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/us/maam-sir-polarizing-words-cec

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-year

https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/parentese-is-truly-a-lingua-franca-finds-global-study/articleshow/93098906.cms

Judges and lawyers are making use of linguistic corpora in court cases, but it’s not clear that they know how to use them correctly: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/7/23153218/legal-corpus-linguistics-mask-mandate-judges