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[–] -1 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

Can't argue with real-world use, but man that is a semantic shift that is doing the original word dirty.

Apparently patronage and other forms of the word are having their definitions affected, too.

I read a lot of books so I'm definitely a lot more used to how words are used up to several decades ago.

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