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  • But pharmakon, like altus, isn't really an auto-antonym; most remedies are poisons if given in the wrong fashion, and deep/high, as pf says, is just a matter of perspective.

    languagehat.com: ODI ET AMO. 2005

  • I don't really think this fits into the auto-antonym category, since the only opposition between 'high' and 'deep' is the lexical one created by English vocabulary -- if you think about it, the real-world situation is the same.

    languagehat.com: O ALTITUDO. 2004

  • This is an interesting choice because "special" is an auto-antonym that, like

    Latest Articles 2010

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