Particularly useful for A2 students to get examples from for Language Change (keep good notes as you need examples to quote in the exam), it is useful for everyone to think about how language is constantly evolving. Comment with other examples of words changing meaning (semantic shift) or gaining new meanings while retaining the old ones (broadening in meaning).
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/oct/07/mind-your-language-words
Lots of expletives have broadened in meaning or even shifted in meaning completely like "slut" which we looked at in lesson but also words such as "ass" etc.
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