[Ads-l] shocked = 'pleasantly surprised'

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jun 19 02:18:26 UTC 2016


On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Meaning shocked has meant pleasantly surprised for decades.




i’m  shocked, shocked!


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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