Timeline for Why does the verb "overlook" have such a different meaning from "oversee"?
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| Jul 23, 2011 at 16:03 | vote | accept | Daniel | ||
| Jul 20, 2011 at 19:48 | comment | added | bye | Etymologies are often false friends; knowing what something once meant is often of little or no help in determining why it means what it means today. Take silly, for instance: it started out meaning blessed. You can trace the drift over the course of seven or eight hundred years, but you'd have to know the entire history of the usage to find a logical path from reverence to ridicule (and it is a logical path). | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 17:57 | answer | added | user10798 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 17:40 | answer | added | Martin S. Stoller | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 20, 2011 at 17:27 | history | asked | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |