Re: Why does the meaning of words change?

Doug Dee wrote:
> Recently I read the surprising (to me) claim that, so far as we can tell from
> written records, Lewis Carroll was the first person to use "pretend" in its
> modern sense of "make believe."  Earlier, it had meant "make a false claim."
Ah!  That's why we use Pretender to refer to a false claimant to a
throne?