Abigail Adams

[theswordmaiden]

The danger of misunderstanding is especially great in the area of language. While anachronistic terms such as prog and ochlocracy pose obvious challenges, other words sow even more confusion by seeming familiar when they actually are not. In John Adams's first diary reference to Abigail Smith, the parson's daughter who was destined to be his bride

Comments

[ghentz]

So the human obsession with self-esteem and building each other up through compliments transcends time and space. Pity.

[theswordmaiden]

Pff, and I thought this was a romantic story. He did marry her after all.