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Thousands of “stretchable” words identified

Millsy & Karl
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Researchers from the US have identified thousands of “stretchable” words by analysing 100 billion tweets. What words do you streeetch?

Dr Neil James from Plain English Foundation & Author of Writing at Work says Twitter is a good way to analyse words and speech because it’s so close to how people actually speak.

“We do this kind of stretching in speech just for emphasis,” Dr James.

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