This research was presented at the 2026 Association of Internet Researchers Conference in Mexico City on October 16, 2026. Click for the entire presentation, but be aware that this was designed to be a presentation, so slides may be missing full contextual detail.

This figure shows definitions for the word slop over its 700-year history, grouped using the Historical Thesaurus of English’s categorical hierarchy system. While this dataset is traditionally used in onomasiological capacities (concept to word), my research approaches the word slop from a semasiological perspective (word to meaning), focusing on how the single word form of slop has existed in various semantic domains through time.