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All the stories submitted to the BBC 500 Words competition are added to a database of children’s written language, and analysed by experts.<\/p>\n

Oxford University Press, said the research was integral to understanding how children use language and reflect on the world around them.<\/p>\n

Mentions of football fell for the first time in five years, researchers found, while mentions of rugby have increased by 50% since 2024.<\/p>\n

Children were also likely to mention popular toys like Lego, TV shows such as The Traitors, and characters like Cinderella and Snow White.<\/p>\n

Last week, Windsor Castle played host to the grand final of BBC 500 Words – with young writers from across the country attending the reception, hosted by Queen Camilla.<\/p>\n

The event – which saw the six winning entries read out by celebrities including Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh and Sara Cox – will be shown during a special episode of The One Show<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All the stories submitted to the BBC 500 Words competition are added to a database of children’s written…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-454221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}