One Response to “Geek Thoughts: English is funny, part 1”

1. bryan

   September 11th, 2008 at 1:44 am

   yes, but probably not in some centuries. Gall became universally unmitigated some years after the first bit of unmitigated gall showed up, because if a gall was in some way mitigated it ended up not being very galling at all when compared with all the galls that were unmitigated. A tipping point was reached in matters of gall.