Saturday, January 11, 2020

The

The deserves to be celebrated. It's omnipresent. We can't imagine English without it. The three-letter word punches well above its weight in terms of impact and breadth of contextual meaning. It can be political, it can be dramatic---it can even bring non-existent concepts into being.


Useful link:
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/jonathan-culpeper
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200109-is-this-the-most-powerful-word-in-the-english-language

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