'gay'

I just saw a post you said earlier.
His the thesaurus: Merry=happy AND gay.
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Gay does mean happy, merry...
Queer does mean strange, awkward... It's not because it's not used in its right contest anymore that the meaning changed.

I can say that flower means goodbye, but that it's not because I use it flower as goodbye that flower means goodbye.

People use words for other meanings that they have, but that doesn't mean it's right, you can't just change what a word means just because years passed by...
 
Mona, well then how do you decide when to randomly add a definition to a word? And how are people informed of it? Nope, it's just misused
 
Of its misused that often it may be added. Just like the abominable snowman is in the dictionary  not a "word" but it's still there for some reason.
 
Not in the dictionary... In the modern dictionary... It's not the same...
I do get your point, and everyone uses gay when referring to a homosexual person, but that doesn't mean that merry isn't it's true meaning... It's misused but it still means happy
 
That's the iBooks dictionary and it's modern if you look in a old dictionary it will say happy. Nothing against u just saying:)
 
All u better leave garret alone or i jump in and when i do it will turn this place into a shit storm  im not the biggest im not the baddest but i can hold a fight so leave him alone 
 
In the 1800's the word gay was also used to refer to female prostitutes. So it has several meanings, not just 2.
But most words have more than 1 meaning or can be used used in a multiple context, so why can't this one ?? It's up to you in which way you interpret and use it.


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