Education

The real meaning of ‘tentative’

By Dr G Mallika Vasugi

LANGUAGES evolve and words shift in their meanings – this is something we cannot help.

With the passing of time, some words that we have known and understood to represent something suddenly seem to have taken on different meanings.

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