The language of an era is, by and large, a record of the problems which that era had to face; new ideas crop up, inventions are made, styles set in, and each of them calls for some new word or some new turn of phrase for its expression.
—Dwight Bolinger, American linguist, Words, 1937

Posted on July 20, 2000 at 2:16 PM

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