ABSTRACT
Living languages, by their very nature, change. They expand to accommodate names for new items introduced from other geographic or cultural venues (to wit: pineapple and pajamas). Shifts occur in grammar (English lost most of its earlier inflections), spelling (public used to be publick), and pronunciation (today’s mouse was once mys, pronounced like the large animal with antlers, native to northern climes). Even once-moribund languages can be revitalized, as in the case of Modern Hebrew.2
