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5 words that don’t mean what they used to mean
"Words over time have a way of just oozing around," says linguist John McWhorter. He traces the evolution of five words that have spent millennia drifting from one meaning into another.
Posted Oct 2016
When Shakespeare committed word crimes
Shakespeare coined new words when he needed -- or merely wanted -- them. Can you guess which words were invented by the Bard?
Posted Jul 2014
Art is art, and other of this week’s comments
This week’s virtual mailbag included a personal take on why we should teach creativity, and the accusation that a TED speaker might just be "philosophically redundant."
Posted Jul 2014