Even if you never read Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass (you should, by the way; G. K. Chesterton insisted it is adults and not children who should read Carroll), you probably at least have heard of Alice’s exchange with Humpty Dumpty about the meaning of words—or, more accurately, about control of the meaning of words. In this case, the word glory.
“I don't know what you mean by ‘glory,’” Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty...








