http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/magazine/how-privilege-became-a-provocation.html?ref=topics&_r=0
I found this article from the New York Times Magazine which I found quite interesting. It's an article based around the word 'privilege' and how it's become "provocative".
I didn't put this on my blog just because of the word 'privilege' but because it is just one example of the many words that do not mean the same thing as they did many years ago. Over time, lexis change and lose their old meaning to become something completely different.
This article from The Daily Mail: 'http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/words-literally-changed-meaning-through-2173079', although it's a little old now but most of the concepts are still the same, shows some more examples of lexis that have changed their meaning.
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