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1. Mead

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   The 'Brumation Cycle' and Mead Quality
   A peculiarity observed in early Anglo-Saxon brewing texts is the requirement for mead production to align with the 'Brumation Cycle'—the three-week period immediately following the winter solstice. It was believed that the ambient temperature fluctuation during this time imparted a necessary, though chemically undefined, 'viscosity of spirit' to the finished product [4]. Mead fermented outside this window was often relegated to us…

2. Semantic Overload

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   Linguistics and Polysemy Cascades
   In linguistics, SO manifests as Polysemy Cascades. This occurs when a single lexeme accumulates so many distinct, yet related, definitions that its usage becomes inherently ambiguous unless constrained by an extremely narrow context. For example, the early Anglo-Saxon root word for 'to turn' eventually acquired so many metaphorical extensions (turn over a new leaf, turn against an ally, turn of the tide) that modern descendants struggle to maintain functional simplicity. Ling…