From Latin came, among many others, the word “insect”, which, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is a: Way back then, English was preparing itself for its part in the “Scientific Revolution”.įor the newly-emerging disciplines of science to get past their L-plates, they needed a special kind of language – new kinds of words, words that declared themselves to be distinct from those of everyday experience.Įnglish borrowed from Latin and Greek and produced a specialised, technical vocabulary. To fully appreciate Munroe’s achievement, we need to go back at least a few centuries, to the later period of the Renaissance. Thing Explainer: Complicated stuff in simple words.
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