Danny Faught@PaysonHall Thanks for sending me this set of Efron's dice! I just played a game with my team. (Spoiler: I won.)
Joshua McNeillSpotted in #Xmen c1966: "shall waken". We can suppose this in variation with "awaken" and take into account #style to an extent if we compare only when preceded by "shall". Unsurprisingly, "awaken" has always been more common in American #literature when #intransitive (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shall+waken%2Cshall+awaken&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3), although these sort of pairs where the standard #transitive version is used intransitively could be interesting to look at further
#Marvel #comics #socioilnguistics #languagevariation #morphology #syntax
⎯ΘωΘ⟶1. (#transitive) #To #bring #forth, #produce, #generate, #cause to #grow
2. (transitive) To #beget, #bear, #give #birth to
3. (#intransitive) To grow, #arise, #spring #up
4. (intransitive, #present #tense) to #become
5. (intransitive, #aorist and #perfect)
6. (#copulative) To #be #by #nature
7. (intransitive) To be #naturally #disposed to, #prone
8. (#impersonal) #It #is #natural, #happens #naturally
9. to #be #one's natural #lot