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A final word

That word I misspelled - vulgar - has an interesting word history, as it is an example of what is known as pejoration, "...the process by which the semantic status of a word changes for the worse over a period of time." (1).

Another such word is liberal.

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(1) American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd. ed.

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