29.4.05

Contronyms

...or antagonyms: words that are their own antonyms, such as "cleave."

And, of course, there's a list of these lexical and semantic oddities.

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Blogger Peter said...

Ron: thanks for this. I'd stumbled upon it once before; I've bookmarked it now.

1/5/05 11:30  

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