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Evolution of language during my lifetime

. I’ve been reading a book, “Semantic Antics,” by Sol Steinmetz, that traces the change of meanings for a number of interesting English words from as early as 800 AC to the present time.  Amazing, for instance, to learn that a word like “nice” originally had a meaning that was opposite to its current one. … Continue reading


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