Just another quirk in the English language. We have a bunch of words that have completely opposite meanings based on their context. E.g. Cleave. You can cleave to the side of a raft and never let go (am I right Titanic?) or you can cleave two things apart. For more fun auto-antonyms, here's the wiki article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-contradicting_words_in_English
Monday, July 13, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
