Sanction? Oversight? Let's Have Fun With Some Contronyms | YSIW - podcast episode cover

Sanction? Oversight? Let's Have Fun With Some Contronyms | YSIW

Aug 06, 202141 min
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Episode description

Do you trim the tree before you trim the tree? Do you have to dust after you dust a cake? Today we're looking at contronyms (or antagonyms, or enantiosemy, or Janus words, or...), those cases where a single word can have two completely opposite meanings.
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