Language is constantly evolving. One hundred years ago, the word ‘nice’ was understood to mean ‘foolish’, before morphing into a synonym for ‘dainty’ and, eventually, ‘pleasant’. This sort of semantic shift happens for various reasons but often results from a technological or demographic shift. For example, the birth of the …
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