Common Innovations

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“They sang, but had not human tunes nor words,
Though all was done in common as before;

They had changed their throats and had the throats of birds.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)