Zach Weinersmith on Nostr: Wow, I was reading a book from the 1940s that referred to a blind and deaf person in ...
Wow, I was reading a book from the 1940s that referred to a blind and deaf person in the 1890s as "the village idiot." And, it turns out the original meaning of the term is not the modern "stupid guy from a small town" but... handicapped people from small towns?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_idiotYEESH
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