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Language changes all the time; new words are invented, old ones are forgotten about, people devise different grammatical solutions to problems which touch off other changes. Written language changes more slowly than spoken language, because people only need to understand and be understood by the people they are speaking to, whereas people write for a wider audience and to be understood over time. Written language did not change much between 1700 and 1950 since the changes in the spoken language were not reflected in the written language and the written language had a slowing effect on changes in oral language. Increasingly since, the people who are writing are writing down their spoken language, and are expecting written language to conform to the way they speak. As a result, language change in English has increased, being fuelled by illiteracy.

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