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Cheapening

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Sunday, November 4, 2001, 22:07
From: "Lars Henrik Mathiesen" <thorinn@...>
> > Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 12:21:12 +0200 > > From: Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> > > > > On 3 Nov, Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote: > > > Also with "cheap", but the meaning of that ("costing little") is a > > > later development. Cheapside, a street in London, used to be a > > > market-place, not necessarily to get bargains, just to buy things. > > Note the parallel development of bargain, which as a verb still has > the more general sense of negotiating.
And also "sale", which moves from items being sold (still in "for sale"), to items being sold at a discount. *Muke!