John Rice-Whetton

School of Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Arts & Culture

I don’t think that word means what you think it means

Words change their meaning over time, but it can be hard to keep up, especially when some words evolve to mean the opposite of their original definition

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