Contronyms…Too Cool!

I admit it…I had no idea what a con­tronym was until I saw this fas­cin­at­ing list of examples. A con­tronym is a word which its own ant­onym. Get it. Maybe not. The word cus­tom for example means both usual and also spe­cial . I like that one! Check out this web page where there is a won­der­ful smat­ter­ing of words that meet this cri­teria — ordin­ary every­day words which we use and pos­sibly have never thought twice about. Eng­lish can be such a funny lan­guage.

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