• Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    That is mostly how it works now; words change meaning. Nobody I know says ‘trash can’, it’s ‘garbage can’. But yeah, they originally meant different things

    • CoolMatt@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      I’ve begun to love finding out old meanings and origins to words, so this one kinda tickled me. I find it interesting too