Wise Words on Wednesday: Words and Thinking

“We think by means of words, and we have to use the same ones for so many different thoughts that, as soon as new meanings have entered into one set, they creep into all our theories and begin to mold our whole cosmos.”
Owen Barfield, History in English Words
Is “Ring Around the Rosie” really about the Plague?
I’ve heard this numerous times, but the song really seems to have nothing to do with the plague…

