For years, some of the ADS-Lers have been collecting examples of ancestor ‘descendant’. By 2004 Jon Lighter and Jesse Sheidlower had a dozen of so examples of this reversal from the earlier argument structure EARLIER-KIN be ancestor of LATER-KIN to LATER-KIN be ancestor of EARLIER-KIN Here I’ll note the examples from my files. In a later … Continue reading Semantic reversals 1: ancestor/descendant