's findings that D U and D T serve better than frequency as predictors of word fate, for the set of anglicisms (Table 3), all correlations were both negative and stronger, and initial frequency log 10 f t (not dissemination) is the best predictor, especially as the time spans increase in length.
while most words' frequency change cannot generally be predicted from earlier frequency, we find that, for anglicisms, a high frequency is more likely to lead to a decline, and vice versa.