This is extremely challenging: the old Mother Goose nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty pointed out that after Humpty “had a great fall; all the king's horses, and all the king's men, couldn't put ...

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the king's horses and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again. He fell off the wall - from the highest high - so high!

“‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what I chose it to mean — neither more nor less,'” the brief recalls. “‘The question is,’ said ...

Now comes Trumpty Dumpty, asserting that he and his government redefiners are our linguistic masters. For starters, they ...