John Algeo Quote

Like the growth rings of a tree, our vocabulary bears witness to our past.


Fifty Years Among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms 1941–1991 (1991)


Like the growth rings of a tree, our vocabulary bears witness to our past.

Like the growth rings of a tree, our vocabulary bears witness to our past.

Like the growth rings of a tree, our vocabulary bears witness to our past.

Like the growth rings of a tree, our vocabulary bears witness to our past.