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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