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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
GUEST,Glade	BS: Mean meanings (58* d)	RE: BS: Mean meanings	04 Sep 02
Once in a while a word's meaning goes in the opposite direction - from negative to positive. I'm thinking of 'nice' which now is used for 'pleasant' (if maybe a little bland). Now, as formerly, 'nice' can mean 'precise' as in "a nice distinction." But it was used as a term of contempt, I think in the 1600's and 1700's. I remember a line from a poem or book of that time: "a nice little boy with nice little manners." Glade

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