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What's in a word?

Learned Vol. 4, Issue 1

Joel Neff
Mar 29, 2021
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This week: trying to define the word, word. Then, footnotes, housekeeping, and a bit of trivia to get us out. Let’s dig in.

What’s in a word?  Or, actually, what is a word?  I mean, over the past three years, for this newsletter, I’ve written over 130,000* words about words without ever really stopping to talk about what a word is.  Which is ridiculou…

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