Assertion: descant | /r/HasProperty | exploration
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text: My descants are explorations of and around words in English, how they came to mean what they mean, and what else they mean, and maybe featuring a short diversion into a few of the meanings of suspiciously similar words, like ‘decant’, which comes to us from the Latin de, from, and canthus, a jug, and which has nothing to do with the target word, or ‘recant’, which originally meant ‘sing it again’, but came to mean singing it again — and this time getting it right