11 English Words That Originally Had Completely Opposite Meanings

As you might have experienced yourself, English is a funny language. Also, it’s confusing as hell. The evolution of English as a language has also seen the evolution of words which originated with a different meaning and slowly their meanings evolved to something completely opposite.

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Just imagine if they would have taught us this in school, I would have died of confusion!