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You Are Definitely Not Using These 5 Words as They Were Intended – Lifehacker Australia
Think you know the meaning of “silly” or “sad”. Think again. The Old English meanings are wildly different from today’s use.
Articles of this kind usually assert that a words correct meaning lies in its earliest uses, while later developments are corruptions. Disinterested doesnt mean not interested but impartial they complain. Decimate must refer to the destruction of precisely one-tenth of something they protest. Fulsome can only mean insincere rather than very full they cry.
While this may seem logical enough, in some cases it doesnt quite work. Here we apply the principle of earliest meaning to five common words and…
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