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Addled Lessons

Posted by Ken Fields on November 1, 2009 at 11:29 am.

To be addled is to be confused; that about sums it up for adolescence. Actually, the word “addled,” from the Middle English period, translates as “mud, filth.”  Adolescence is a dirty, filthy, confusing time. Adolescence, as a word comes from Latin and translates into English as “to grow.” The word “adult” comes from the same [...]