Why We Have So Many Words for Big Things in English

I peter sakalowski: English speakers are far more likely to describe the matter as inexplicable than they are to describe it as unexplainable. We alway seek logic in language, and one of the intriguing characteristics about english is that we often have a lot of words for a kind of the same thing. Am aman shey: Do you have a question about the origin, history or meaning of a word? Email us at word matters at m hifen w dot com.