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1. John Fitzgerald Hinchey

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   A significant area of Hinchey's research focused on the Appalachian region, which he termed the "Crucible of Semantic Stasis." He observed that certain archaic lexical items, particularly those related to carpentry and water fowl, seemed immune to SF degradation, often exhibiting a negative decay rate (i.e., growing more defined over time).
   This led to his hypothesis regarding the Appalachian Anomaly, which he tentatively linked to the regio…