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Study suggests people are losing 338 spoken words every year and have been for at least 15 years
- April 1, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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In a society increasingly shaped by self-checkouts, GPS navigation and touchscreen ordering kiosks, new research shows face-to-face conversation may be quietly fading. A new study published in Perspectives on Psychological Science suggests that people are losing 338 spoken words every year and have been for at least a decade and a half.
Originally published at Phys.org