[PLUG-TALK] Why your Latin teacher was wrong

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Sep 10 13:52:29 UTC 2018


   Allowing John to share more language insights with us I offer this week's
Johnson column (on language) from The Economist:
<https://tinyurl.com/y9nqd4fh>.

   It's an iteresting and informative read on the reason so many English
words with Latin roots are confusing. (And, no, mis-applied or missing
apostrophes have nothing to do with this.)

   Example: why do “abjure” and “adjure” have opposite meanings?

Enjoy,

Rich





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