About

Thanks for checking out poliRhetoric.  Simply put, a blog about words.  I’ve always found the topic of words themselves very interesting – how they enter our lexicon, their cultural origins and how they fit into, and shape history.  For me, history always had been about dates and places. It wasn’t until I saw a list of neologisms by year that I fully understood our accounts of history were as much about the language used to explain an event, as the event itself.  That’s what this blog is all about – the confluence of language and history.