The, creepiest word in Macbeth

Macbeth is the most unsettling of Shakespeare's plays, and not just because of the grim subject matter. As Clive Thompson writes, "there's something subconsciously off about the sound of the play, and it spooks people". A language study set out to find the most uncanny language in the play, expecting the dark magic to be in meter and prosody. — Read the rest