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Joshua McNeill<p>Spotted in <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Xmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Xmen</span></a> c1966: "shall waken". We can suppose this in variation with "awaken" and take into account <a href="https://h4.io/tags/style" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>style</span></a> to an extent if we compare only when preceded by "shall". Unsurprisingly, "awaken" has always been more common in American <a href="https://h4.io/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> when <a href="https://h4.io/tags/intransitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intransitive</span></a> (<a href="https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shall+waken%2Cshall+awaken&amp;year_start=1800&amp;year_end=2019&amp;corpus=en-US-2019&amp;smoothing=3" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books.google.com/ngrams/graph?</span><span class="invisible">content=shall+waken%2Cshall+awaken&amp;year_start=1800&amp;year_end=2019&amp;corpus=en-US-2019&amp;smoothing=3</span></a>), although these sort of pairs where the standard <a href="https://h4.io/tags/transitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transitive</span></a> version is used intransitively could be interesting to look at further</p><p><a href="https://h4.io/tags/Marvel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marvel</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/socioilnguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socioilnguistics</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagevariation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>languagevariation</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/morphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>morphology</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syntax</span></a></p>