Words on the Move
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: 171. Where Is the Line Between Exaggeration and Lying? | No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid QuestionsThere is this linguist, John McWhorter, he wrote a book, Words on the Move: Why English Won't and Can't Sit Still, and he talked about the very fact that words just change and dictionaries sort of set in our minds that language is going to be precise forever, and this is just what this word means, or this is how we say it.