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English is absolutely crazy. We have some
words that have opposite meanings.
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Take for example the word, cull. Right now I'm culling
my kids' books, taking out the ones they don't
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really like or read anymore. So, cull means to go
through something and take some out to discard,
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to get rid of, to pull some out from a group to
throw away. But it also means to pull some things
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out from a group to keep. For example, we've
culled all of the poems published this year
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to get the very best into our collection.
So, we’ve culled, we've selected to keep,
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to collect and publish in our poem anthology.
So, cull, to pull something out of a group to
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get rid of it or to pull something out of a
group to keep it.
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Totally opposite meanings.
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