"Oh my god look at its little face!"
Ned Beauman's blog.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Interesting autoantonym: according to the OED, bleach now means "a bleaching liquor or powder" but it once also meant "any substance used for blacking; e.g. ink, soot, lamp-black, and esp. shoemakers' or curriers' black used for leather."
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