<div dir="auto">"Awesome" is one of my favorites. Now used to indicate general goodness. Not generally used in situations where one say "i was in awe". <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"Liberal" and "conservative" are two of my least favorite. Liberal was about promoting freedom. Conservative was about retaining past ways. Note that those are clearly orthogonal issues in their original usage, and now we act like they are opposites, which is terrible. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 8:38 PM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dave, <br>
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Great list. Here is my favorite to add:<br>
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Incredible: now is "good", "very good"; was: "unsubstantiated", "suspect". <br>
Ditto unbelievable. <br>
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See also adverbial forms, incredibly and unbelievably which have come to mean "very". <br>
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Nick <br>
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Nicholas Thompson<br>
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Clark University<br>
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Wit \u2014 now: fun, funny, humorous; then: clever, apt humor, intelligence, acumen, thinker<br>
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Fizzle \u2014 now: to fail, failure; then: to fart quietly<br>
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Buxom \u2014 now: large-breasted; then: compliant or obedient<br>
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Fantastic \u2014 now: unbelievable, superlative, excellent; then: based on fantasy or imagination, of fantasy<br>
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Girl \u2014 now: young female; then: young person of any gender<br>
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Backlog \u2014 now: pending work; then: largest log (literally!)<br>
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Prestigious \u2014 now: honored; then: trickery, illusion, conjuring<br>
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Bully \u2014 now: to be cruel, insulting, or threatening; then: a sweetheart, a fine chap<br>
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Cute \u2014 now: attractive; then: clever, shrewd<br>
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Meat \u2014 now: animal flesh for food; then: all foods<br>
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Myriad \u2014 now: a great number; then: referred to the number 10,000 in ancient Greece<br>
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