"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced
but even more in the new ideas they express."
- de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Book I, Chapter 16
Shakespeare,
who introduced hundreds of words to the English language,
did not live in a democracy.
And, although we already had the words
usual, common,
it was democracy which gave us the oppressive word
normal...
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