The way in which new words become popular and spread across the UK and US will be mapped out for the first time in a ground-breaking study conducted at Aston University.
The investigation, led by Dr Jack Grieve, Lecturer in
Forensic Linguistics at Aston, will use Twitter as a source of linguistic data.
More than a billion tweets sent over a one-year period in both countries will
be analysed to determine where new words originate from and how they become
geographically dispersed as time progresses.