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From: jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Another Semantic Reversal
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Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 03:02:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 21 03:02:54 1985
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An obsolete meaning of the word "upset" is "to set up or raise; to put
upright" (Webster's 2nd).  It seems logical that this was the original
meaning.  One of its current meanings (to overturn) is almost the opposite
of the original.  Does anyone know how this reversal came about?
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak