You just blew my mind. Thank you for that. Also indirectly introduced me to a way to learn a new word a day.
Comment on Why do some Spanish/English words share the same multiple meanings?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wait ‘till OP finds out that Sinister was originally the word for “left”
Calanthesrose@lemmy.world 6 months ago
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 months ago
Meanwhile, the French word for left is “gauche”.
Which leads to a famous quip from a Canadian conservative politician some decades ago: “the Canadian left is more gauche than sinister”