Ice Tea and Semantic Drift
Word Matters
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Word Matters - The Word of the Day
It seems like in the 20th century, wonderful is probably used in a lot of advertising and marketing for things that we wanted to be impressed by. Even if you are encountering such a word in relatively recent writings from 100, 150 years ago, it's possible to actually completely misunderstand the intent of the author. You need some merchants of ambiguity, aka lexicographers.
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