What does it mean now?

[Alan]

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Hi,

It's fascinating the way words change, isn't it? I suppose that's because language is a living thing. After all we all change, don't we? What a particular word meant in the 18th century, doesn't necessarily mean the same in the 21st century. That's probably why people get put off sometimes by some of the words used by Shakespeare and he was writing in the 16th/17th century.

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Alan
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