English verb regularization in books and tweets
Table 2: A summary of the average regularization fractions for AE and BE on Twitter and Ngrams. Note that the differences were taken prior to rounding.
['[EMPTY]', 'Twitter', 'Ngrams', 'Difference']
We found again that verbs on Twitter are more regular than in Ngrams for American English, likely for many of the same reasons that verbs on Twitter are more regular than Ngrams in general. However, we find that in British English the opposite is true: Verbs on Twitter are less regular than in Ngrams. In decreasing order by average regularization fraction, we have AE Twitter, then AE Ngrams, then BE Ngrams, and finally BE Twitter. Then, it may be that British English authors and editors are being influenced by American publications and the language used therein. Finally, it may be that average British users of Twitter are more resistant to the change.