English speakers have been molding and playing with the language for centuries, and that’s not changing any time soon. If this book only serves to prove that the English language is still very much active and alive, then it’s done its job. Did you find any base-level theories for why words change in meaning? Being a language born of various roots, is English more prone to evolving in this way than a language with a more homogenous history? But you’re right ― the English language has such a checkered, sprawling history that I think it is likely more liable to change than most.

Source: Huffington Post October 27, 2017 15:00 UTC