To a linguist, there is so much to appreciate in just about every word.
And over the past couple of weeks, I have been delighting in none other than the word “blink.”This delight was inspired by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
In fact, in different ways, the word “blink” points us both backward and forward in time.
Justice Jackson’s usage of the term was apparently the result of the expression “blinks reality,” which is relatively common in legal writings.
“Blink” had come to mean “neglect” by the 18th century, and the usage was ordinary up through the Gilded Age.
Persons:
Ketanji Brown Jackson, ”, George Eliot’s “ Adam Bede ”, Henry James’s, Blink ”, “
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