There’s a line from A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens that has me thinking about how language changes over time, not just in word choice, but in the very meaning of the words.
From the last paragraph, about Ebenezer Scrooge: “He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived up on the Total-Abstinence Principle ever afterwards…”
I’d love to discuss this with a high school class!
Maureen