[PLUG-TALK] begging the question

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Oct 5 13:48:17 UTC 2009


On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Denis Heidtmann wrote:

> A friend wondered why worth and price have similar meanings yet
> worthless and priceless seem to be opposites.

   It's to confuse non-native English speakers. We also speak of someone
looking disheveled, but not sheveled.

Rich



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