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Literature & Language
Language is the technology we use most and notice least. These lessons look at how words carry meaning — and how they lose it.
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Literature & Language/beginner
How Words Change Meaning
Language is not a fixed code. Words drift — narrowing, widening, improving and decaying — and tracking a single word across centuries shows how the drift happens.
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Literature & Language/intermediate
How a Dictionary Gets Written
A dictionary is not a rulebook handed down. It is a survey of how people actually write — which is why 'literally' now has two meanings.
5 min read
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