Posts tagged “words”

Tragedy of the Commons Word

My phone buzzed four times on the evening of November 3, all of them texts from campaigns, all of them asking for money, and three of them using the same word. A progressive champion needed me before midnight. A progressive […]

That Queyntyly Engynours Made

Around 1300 an English poet put Richard the Lionheart on crusade in rhyming couplets. In Richard Coer de Lyon the king’s army raises a siege tower, and the poem says of it: “A tour ful strong, That queyntyly engynours made.” […]