Showing posts with label Kory Stamper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kory Stamper. Show all posts
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Daily Dose
From Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, by Kory Stamper
NOTICE
"... a language that doesn't change is a dead language, and as much as etymological fallacists seem to love the purity of Latin, you'll notice that none of them have abandoned that whore English for it."
From Posh: On Etymology and Linguistic Originalism
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Daily Dose,
dictionaries,
etymology,
Kory Stamper,
Latin,
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