20 Words That Don’t Mean Anywhere Near What You’d Think
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it as many times as we need to: The English language is dumb as balls. Sentences can be both grammatically correct and complete nonsense. There are rules about the order of adjectives that we all instinctively understand without any idea why. You can make an entire sentence out of eight iterations of the same word. You don’t even have to try that hard.
Even once you’ve wrapped your head around all that, you still have to contend with words that simply don’t mean what they logically should. “Airsoft is one, surprised I forgot about that,” user Different-Citron-984 told r/AskReddit.
They then asked, “What’s something that has a dangerously misleading name?” and their fellow Redditors named them off one after the other.
