Unfortunately the word &quot;free&quot; has lost all coherent meaning in modern usage.<p>Amazon Prime has &quot;free&quot; shipping, costs $100&#x2F;year. Your cellphone plan has &quot;free&quot; text messaging, costs $79&#x2F;month. Your postage has &quot;free&quot; tracking, costs $11.<p>Why, in particular in American, has the word &quot;included&quot; seemingly been vanished from the popular vocabulary to be replaced with &quot;free?&quot; Now what word do we use when something is ACTUALLY free?