Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Linguistic Drift

In addition to logical, evolutionary changes languages also experience random drift.

But I'm still grateful to Vikings for counting goats instead of gat.
Tags: history, linguistics, news, science
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