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Changing our hair, getting divorced, taking spa vacations \u2014 they\u2019re not just things we do; they\u2019re \u201cjourneys.\u201d The quest for better health is the greatest journey of all.<\/p>\n

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Drew Barrymore has been talking with Gayle King about her perimenopause \u201cjourney<\/a>,\u201d and the soccer phenom Carli Lloyd has just divulged her fertility \u201cjourney<\/a>.\u201d By sharing her breast cancer story, Olivia Munn has said<\/a> she hopes she will \u201chelp others find comfort, inspiration, and support on their own journey.\u201d A recent interview<\/a> with Anne Hathaway has been posted on Instagram with a headline highlighting her \u201csobriety journey<\/a>,\u201d and Kelly Clarkson has opened up about what Women\u2019s Health calls her \u201cweight loss journey<\/a>.\u201d On TikTok, a zillion influencer-guides lead pilgrims on journeys through such ephemeral realms as faith, healing, grief, friendship, mastectomy, and therapy \u2014 often selling courses, supplements or eating plans as if they were talismans to help safeguard their path.<\/p>\n

\u201cJourney\u201d has decisively taken its place in American speech. The word holds an upbeat utility these days, signaling struggle without darkness or detail, and expressing \u2014 in the broadest possible way \u2014 an individual\u2019s experience of travails over time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s often related to physical or mental health, but it can really be about anything: \u201cPutting on your socks can be a journey of self-discovery,\u201d said Beth Patton, who lives in Central Indiana and has relapsing polychondritis, an inflammatory disorder. In the chronic disease community, she said, \u201cjourney\u201d is a debated word. \u201cIt\u2019s a way to romanticize ordinary or unpleasant experiences, like, \u2018Oh, this is something special and magical.\u2019\u201d Not everyone appreciates this, she said.<\/p>\n

According to the linguistics professor Jesse Egbert at Northern Arizona University, the use of \u201cjourney\u201d (the noun) has nearly doubled in American English since 1990, with the most frequent instances occurring online. Mining a new database of conversational American English he and colleagues are building, Egbert could show exactly how colloquial \u201cjourney\u201d has become: One woman in Pennsylvania described her \u201cjourney to become a morning person,\u201d while another, in Massachusetts, said she was \u201con a journey of trying to like fish.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Egbert was able to further demonstrate how the word itself has undergone a transformative journey \u2014 what linguists call \u201csemantic drift.\u201d It wasn\u2019t so long ago that Americans mostly used \u201cjourney\u201d to mean a literal trip, whereas now it\u2019s more popular as a metaphor. Egbert demonstrated this by searching the more than one billion words in a database called COCA for the nouns people put before \u201cjourney\u201d to clarify what sort they\u2019re on. Between 1990 and 2005, the most common modifier was \u201creturn,\u201d followed by words like \u201cocean,\u201d \u201ctrain,\u201d \u201cmile,\u201d \u201cnight,\u201d \u201coverland,\u201d and \u201cbus.\u201d<\/p>\n

But between 2006 and 2019, usage shifted. \u201cReturn\u201d remains the most common noun modifier to journey, but now it\u2019s followed closely by \u201cfaith,\u201d \u201ccancer,\u201d and \u201clife.\u201d Among the top 25 nouns used to modify \u201cjourney\u201d today are: \u201csoul,\u201d \u201cadoption,\u201d and \u201chair.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Changing our hair, getting divorced, taking spa vacations \u2014 they\u2019re not just things we do; they\u2019re \u201cjourneys.\u201d The quest for better health is the greatest journey of all.Drew Barrymore has been talking with Gayle King about her perimenopause \u201cjourney,\u201d and the soccer phenom Carli Lloyd has just divulged her fertility \u201cjourney.\u201d By sharing her breast cancer story, Olivia Munn has said she hopes she will \u201chelp others find comfort, inspiration, and support on their own journey.\u201d A recent interview with Anne Hathaway has been posted on Instagram with a headline highlighting her \u201csobriety journey,\u201d and Kelly Clarkson has opened up about what Women\u2019s Health calls her \u201cweight loss journey.\u201d On TikTok, a zillion influencer-guides lead pilgrims on journeys through such ephemeral realms as faith, healing, grief, friendship, mastectomy, and therapy \u2014 often selling courses, supplements or eating plans as if they were talismans to help safeguard their path.\u201cJourney\u201d has decisively taken its place in American speech. The word holds an upbeat utility these days, signaling struggle without darkness or detail, and expressing \u2014 in the broadest possible way \u2014 an individual\u2019s experience of travails over time.It\u2019s often related to physical or mental health, but it can really be about anything: \u201cPutting on your socks can be a journey of self-discovery,\u201d said Beth Patton, who lives in Central Indiana and has relapsing polychondritis, an inflammatory disorder. In the chronic disease community, she said, \u201cjourney\u201d is a debated word. \u201cIt\u2019s a way to romanticize ordinary or unpleasant experiences, like, \u2018Oh, this is something special and magical.\u2019\u201d Not everyone appreciates this, she said.According to the linguistics professor Jesse Egbert at Northern Arizona University, the use of \u201cjourney\u201d (the noun) has nearly doubled in American English since 1990, with the most frequent instances occurring online. Mining a new database of conversational American English he and colleagues are building, Egbert could show exactly how colloquial \u201cjourney\u201d has become: One woman in Pennsylvania described her \u201cjourney to become a morning person,\u201d while another, in Massachusetts, said she was \u201con a journey of trying to like fish.\u201dEgbert was able to further demonstrate how the word itself has undergone a transformative journey \u2014 what linguists call \u201csemantic drift.\u201d It wasn\u2019t so long ago that Americans mostly used \u201cjourney\u201d to mean a literal trip, whereas now it\u2019s more popular as a metaphor. Egbert demonstrated this by searching the more than one billion words in a database called COCA for the nouns people put before \u201cjourney\u201d to clarify what sort they\u2019re on. Between 1990 and 2005, the most common modifier was \u201creturn,\u201d followed by words like \u201cocean,\u201d \u201ctrain,\u201d \u201cmile,\u201d \u201cnight,\u201d \u201coverland,\u201d and \u201cbus.\u201dBut between 2006 and 2019, usage shifted. \u201cReturn\u201d remains the most common noun modifier to journey, but now it\u2019s followed closely by \u201cfaith,\u201d \u201ccancer,\u201d and \u201clife.\u201d Among the top 25 nouns used to modify \u201cjourney\u201d today are: \u201csoul,\u201d \u201cadoption,\u201d and \u201chair.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. 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