Studies in words
by C. S. Lewis · first published 1960
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…get the idea]. Or if you want examples in English, at least to Chaucer. Note, if you want a much fuller idea of what “nature”/“natural” means and meant in the past, I highly recommend the CS Lewis book Studies in Words which devotes a 50 page chapter to comprehensively exploring the subject.
on “Fungus threatens top banana” ↗Let me recommend people interested in words check out C.S. Lewis’s book Studies in Words https://amzn.com/B01GEROZMQ/, which takes a handful of words and extends their analysis far beyond anything you could find in a comprehensive dictionary. People might also get some use out of Garner’s…
on “Who Did This? (2017)” ↗If you’re interested in this kind of thing, I recommend CS Lewis’s book Studies in Words, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studies_in_Words
on “A Theory of Jerks (2014)” ↗He also wrote a great book called Studies in Words about how the meaning of words change over time, apparently in similar ways in different languages. It was based on a series of lectures he gave students reading old texts, that they should not apply…
on “C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books” ↗