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Thursday, 26 April 2012
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Boring:
sleep
Sleeping Beauty
slept
in her forest castle
.
Use:
slumber
Sleeping beauty
slumbered
in her forest castle.
In context
slumber
in a song:
I Won't Be Found by
The Tallest Man on Earth
on Grooveshark
slumber
in 3 articles:
here
,
here
, and
here
Frequency
Google
and
COCA
:
Ngram
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Notes
The word
slumber
is mainly used in
literary contexts
.
Slumber
is more often used as a
noun
than a verb. Note that, unlike COCA, both google search results and Ngram do not differentiate between the two word classes.
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