When a new coinage first spreads online, its spellings display a striking (i) ______: there are as many renderings as early adopters, though all agree on what the word means. Because a writer's chief aim is to be understood, however, people soon start copying whichever variant they encounter most, and as one form circulates more widely, any departure from it grows costlier, until using it becomes (ii) ______ and the rival spellings, once just as common, vanish within a few months. Picturing speakers as uncomplicated agents who heed only a handful of local cues, rather than as rational planners weighing every option, can thus expose (iii) ______ that no grammarian ever decreed.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)	Blank (iii)
A. ambiguity	D. all but obligatory	G. aberrations
B. heterogeneity	E. conspicuously modish	H. convergences
C. orthodoxy	F. entirely discretionary	I. stratifications