This 'recency illusion' is a theory you could mention in a Language Change essay. He also mentions the idea of language "deteriorating" which we will cover under the idea of a 'prescriptive attitude to language change'. (Check out also Jean Aitchison's metaphors for prescritptivist attitudes to LC: http://a2englishlanguagerevision.wikispaces.com/Attitudes+towards+Change+and+Variation )
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/01/words-much-older-than-you-think-language?CMP=twt_gu
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