How Linguists Think: I found this on our word-of-the-day e-mail...........
Guest Wordsmith Philip Gooden (pgoodenATgooden.ndo.co.uk) writes: Language gives a snub to borders in a way that is denied to any other human invention. There are no controls or checks to prevent words from crossing boundaries, there are no duties to be paid when phrases migrate from one culture to... Sign in to see full entry.