My 2025 Word of the Year: Subtract

My 2025 Word of the Year: Subtract

Subtract.  What feeling does that word conjure up for you?  To me, it feels negative.  (Pun intended.)  “Mary had 4 apples, and John ate 2 of them.  Now the kids only have 2 apples.”  Oh dear!  Our earliest math problems invoke a spirit of shortage, don’t they?  Of...