6 293 words opposites sue morrish posting shame australian reminded weird fact word south african english according sa friends shame used exclamation joy example old ladies seeing newborn baby fluffy animal supposed explanation shame exclamation disapproval became exclamation sympathy somebody illtreated far parallels shift familiar bleached still sa mere back channel utterance indicating listener still paying sympathetic attention became positive expression pleasure anybody confirm either data explanation btw wrt benji wald posting understood origin lucus non lucendo st isidore seville _ origines sive etymologiae _ 7th c according father dinneen book history linguistics think john waterman little book perspectives linguistics 1963 gives another example source bellum war bellus beautiful war far beautiful regards paul werth