Have you seen what&#x27;s been done to the political word &quot;liberal&quot;? That&#x27;s not a crack at any current adherents to any particular definition of the word, because even here in the US it&#x27;s been through <i>several</i> phases, and if one also adds in its international usage, it requires half a bachelor&#x27;s in political history to understand how all the usages ever related to each other. Words move, for better or worse; the past is a foreign country.