Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

those irregular, very old, irregular.

I mean, I go on to the Oxford Learner's Dictionary or Etymology Online, and I just look at where that comes from.

And it's an old English word, isn't it? Trouble is, it probably used to be said side, side, you know, because of the great vowel shift, you know, words became short or long or, you know.

But I don't know how, apart from it being in one of the most common irregular words and probably on the Dolch list, I think you have to keep spelling it,

and they made it freely accessible.

And the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary now explicitly acknowledges that in its widest meaning, nature includes humans.

So it sounds like a tiny change in language, but actually culturally it's something, it's part of something much, much bigger.

Moving from the relatively recent story of separation back towards remembering that we are part of the living world.