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John:
> And Rosta scripsit:
>
> >  Far better to cleanse the word through clean use.
>
> Too late now.
In the sense of 'negro', but what about in the sense of 'friend', or if
it were used to denote some variety of excellence, like 'dude'?

> It is as unrecoverable as the original meaning of "whore" -- shown by its
> Latin cognate "cara"!
I have read (journalists, not scholars) that among mainstream youth in
contemporary Britain, a word spelt <ho>, < _whore_, means "girl, girlfriend".

"Whore" is probably used more to mean "easily bribed, easily seduced,
easily persuaded to do something in return for material pleasures or
money", nowadays.

--And.