They're Only Words but It Depends How You Use Them ; Agenda

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Postmodernist historians (I vowed I would never start a sentence, let alone a column, with the word 'postmodernist', but there we are) reckon that we cannot learn anything meaningful from old documents.

All we can discover is the different way people use words.

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They're Only Words but It Depends How You Use Them ; Agenda

Take the word 'toilet', for example. If some old diary writer says that they went to their toilet, it could mean anything from a dressing-table or a chamberpo...

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