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Tuesday, 2003 May 20, 11:43 — arts, history, language

semantic drift

According to John Ross (author of Unintended Consequences),

What Shakespeare’s character Dick the Butcher really said was “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the legislators.”
That’s a bit different suggestion, isn’t it?

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