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Why do people feel 'a rose by any other name' wouldn't fit as well?

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imageA rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but it just doesn't feel right.Mark A Neal, CC BY-NC-ND

Words are symbols that help humans communicate. The link between words and what they refer to is, with very few exceptions, arbitrary. Many of the words that we currently use (“table,” “dog,” “mug,” etc) could...

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