Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-10-10 | Page 10 | How Words Change

now yrczza czllsqx. Words. undergo' all sorts of change. Not ao much luiform 'a in meaning. Their forms remain traceable, but . the way in which many of them shift their meanings is very interesting and remarkable. re-markable. Tale oar common word resentment. re-sentment. It" now means manifest- tion of angeror displeasure. In its origin ori-gin it meant almost precisely the opposite. oppo-site. It signified ciril attention or recognition re-cognition of .a friendly act. To equivo-eate equivo-eate was at first merely to eall two things by the same name, not to utter a falsehood. Hypocrite meant originally original-ly nothing nothing but player or actor; act-or; end had no sinister meaning. .Tinsel at first was made of the precious metals and the word was in rood repute till detection de-tection of repeated frauds caused its degradation. The word " admiration once meant wonder merely.. Now it also al-so means approval and delight. There are thousands of words in English that thus hare changed their signification, some for the better, some for the worse. But their forms have changed little, in many cases not at all. Portland Ore-gonian.