Deceptive familiarity

Five words we use every day but whose original meaning has flipped

Language has a knack for playing tricks on us.

We toss words around like old friends, confident in our understanding, yet blissfully unaware of their secret past lives. It's as if our vocabulary decided to go through a mid-life crisis, emerging with a whole new identity. This linguistic metamorphosis, known in technical circles as semantic drift, isn't …