2 May 2026
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“Fast”, “clip”, “sanction”, “leave”… can have two opposing meanings. How does that happen? In this video, let’s explore the self-contradictory words known as “contronyms”. The Vikings, the Romans and the Normans all play their parts, so let’s get to the tales behind the antithesis.

Also, YouTuber Evan Edinger joins us to look at some transatlantic linguistic clashes: words like “quite” that mean one thing in British English and something else very different in American English.

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Filmed along Berlin’s Landwehr Canal.

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Editing: Martyn Williams
Everything else: Rob Watts

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0:00 Introduction

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