Fwd: interesting turn for "hoi polloi"

[sagehen]

arnold writes:

>"hoi polloi" drifts even further from its roots...
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Another interesting example, in my experience, is a student of Greek (text
only), for whom the romanized "hoi polloi" became somehow so detached from
the Greek roots  & so imbedded in American speech as to have completely
reversed its meaning to be, instead:  "elite class" or "high society."
AM

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