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Some words that mean the opposite (or originally meant the opposite) of what we think they do.
http://www.rd.com/culture/opposite-words/1/
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Some dictionaries now list "literally" as a (secondary) synonym for "figuratively." I maintain that this is an example of the above sort of misuse...but that's another debate for another board
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Ugh, "irregardless" isn't actually a word at all!When you start at zero, everything's progress.Comment
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Well, I can understand that point, but we've taken to using "adult" as a verb, and "shortening" things like the word "totally" to "totes" and "obviously" to "obvs", so it doesn't really surprise me now what's considered a "word", and how that "word" is to be used.Quoth MoonCat View Post
Like I learned in the last few years that "cwm" is actually a word. It's got a Welsh origin, but I found it in a dictionary once. I think I was playing Scrabble and the game suggested that word.Skilled programmers aren't cheap. Cheap programmers aren't skilled.Comment
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