Highly Irregular Verbs Can Teach Us A Lot About Meaning
Many words possess two kinds of meaning. The basic, direct meaning we call denotation. The implied, suggestive meanings are connotations. Connotations are what give a word its individuality and color, its distinctive personality. Take the word fist, defined denotatively as “the hand clenched with the fingers pressed into the palm and the thumb pressed around […]