The co-ordinates of 'Flame'

The co-ordinates of 'Pay

Word Co-ordinates

Based on research with the Oxford English Dictionary over 2003-4, this is a rule-based series physically describing the interrelationships in a set of words.All the forms are built to the same basic rules which dictate how information about a word, printed in the OED, can be translated into a set of spatial dimensions.

All the forms are built to the same rules:
the object standing for the first term will support all others, the year of entry into the language of a term corresponds to the height of its object, etymological connections between terms will be distinguished from meaning changes within a term, a correspondence of word form is recognised by a correspondence between objects