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Language is a living thing, as any linguist will tell you. It grows, it changes and it adapts. Grammer changes, spelling changes, and even the meaning of the words themselves can completely change. There are many words we say today that in the past meant a completely different thing all together. For example, take these 25 words that we use all the time without realizing that they started with a very different meaning... |
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