Jack Albrecht
Aug 5, 2021

In the immortal words of Igor, “Well, they were wrong then weren’t they.”

Sarcasm only partly aside, what a dictionary lists and what a word means in current society are not necessarily the same.

Another example: Saying a woman is dressed “inappropriately” per the dictionary definition has no sexual overtones. But it certainly does have sexual overtones in current common usage.

Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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