http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/22/iraq-war-gives-english-new-words
This article focuses on how the Iraq war has changed language perhaps without meaning to. It suggests that in everyday conversation, words such as 'surge' and 'drawdown' are now commonly used with maybe wouldn't have been if this war had not had happened. It also shows some facts about which words are most commonly looked up and found that words relating to war such as 'brigade' and 'regime' were more researched than 'effect' and 'affect'. 'Ten years on, we seem to have lexical war fatigue'.
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