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How and why words change meaning is the topic of a new book: Semantic Antics, by Sol Steinmetz. He discovers, among other things, that the word "weird" was first used by Shakespeare who used it six times in Macbeth. tags weird Shakespeare Semantic AnticsWeird, back then, meant "having the supernatural power to control a person's fate, claiming to deal with fate or destiny." I take it back; you're not weird! picked by dreamering 5 months ago |
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