semantic drift

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 May 20 by Anton

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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