Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.
Monday, July 14, 2008
"Estate"
How come "estate" has two meanings, very opposite in meaning? In the U.S. it means a big old place, or a big old pile of money. In Britain it seems to mean a bunch of poor people in one place, what we might call a [low income] housing project.
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