On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:15:27 -0400, "Jeremy \"UncleHoot\" Praay"
<jer### [at] questsoftwarecmo> wrote:

>I can think of handful of examples of this.  In most of these cases, the 
>meaning has changed to the opposite, and it's quite confusing.

The word that brought my attention to this phenomenon was "anon". In Chaucer's
writing it meant "just now" but 200 years later Shakespeare used it to mean
"soon". 
Just like the word "presently".
As for "sleeper" in the sixties it meant a slow mover with respect to the
charts.
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Regards
     Stephen

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