# Lamenting the merging meaning of words that used to mean something different

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**Created:** [April 27, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamenting-the-merging-meaning-of-words-that-used-to-mean-something-different/785380 "2017-04-27T17:51:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamenting-the-merging-meaning-of-words-that-used-to-mean-something-different/785380/13 "2017-04-28T00:58:19Z")

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**Conscious** and **conscience**. Particularly basketball announcers who claim that a hot shooter is **unconscious** when that clearly is not possible. He is stabbing the dagger in your heart and twisting it over and over, so clearly he has no **conscience**.

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