[SyneRyder]

Wow, that blog post is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

For those who haven't read the blog post yet, it also includes an archive.org link to the out-of-copyright 1913 Websters, and ways to install it on Mac, iPhone, Android, and Kindle.

Where the blog post compares the very different definitions of "pathos" in 1913 Webster's & 2010 New Oxford American, I'm reminded of Orwell's "Principles Of Newspeak" appendix at the end of Nineteen Eighty-Four. The appendix imagines how the definitions of words kept being further narrowed until the final Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary, to diminish the range of possible thought.