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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:00:50 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 07:43:08 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2025-02-27, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> Just as nobody says “awful” to mean “awesome”.
> 
> To be fair ("To be fair..."  "To be fair..."  "To be fair..."  --
> Letterkenny) that word's spelling was, I believe, "aweful" - at least
> some of the time.

I read somewhere of a story where, I think it was King James VI/I, 
complimenting an architect on his latest construction, used three 
adjectives that would be construed quite differently today. The only one I 
can remember was “awful”.