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He paid me to discover ways to express the unnameable; to get to the bottom of an utterance; to find words for the things for which there were no words yet, thereby bringing them into existence, commi...

No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly slippery flexibility. For English is a lang...

Lexicology Definition

(n.) The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.