Janus words: Words which are their own opposites

"That two-faced son of a jackal!" - Aladdin (Aladdin, 1992) What a tricksy little beastie the English language can be. Not satisfied by countless rules with just as many exceptions and a half-arsed commitment to cases and words which sound the same but really look like they shouldn't, we also do a cracking line in … Continue reading Janus words: Words which are their own opposites