Earliest recorded ‘funk’ in 1623
Words are funny things. Most people, it seems, could get along just fine using a mere couple hundred words (in English, that is). So many, many more have been uttered and phrased and forgotten that it’s a wonder anyone would try to keep track of them, let alone elaborate on them.
But that is precisely the undertaking what Florida high school teacher Jeff Miller has, well, undertaken, and the results are staggering.
