Nifty tool

The OED Text Vizualiser. Drop 500 or fewer words written post-1750 into it, tell it the date of the writing, and it'll give you a graph (and a couple of spreadsheets) that shows you the general time of origin and language from which the word was inherited, borrowed, or formed (Germanic, English, Romance, Latin, etc.).

I dropped two sections of Deadwater (the thing I'm currently writing) into it, one from Burn's POV and one from Calli's, just to see what my language choices are for each voice.
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