Academic Poetry

It’s rather misfortunate that the word “etymology” is such an odd looking word. Because the study of words is powerful.

Surgeons dissect the body, to understand muscle and tissue and bone. Psychologists dissect the mind, to understand emotions and thought and ideas.

But etymologists dissect language, to understand where words came from, what they mean, how they have changed, where they are going. To trace the simple and complex influence of words throughout the ages.

I think they must be poets underneath all that academia.

Is it any wonder that the root word for this pursuit of language means truth?