Friday False Friend 1: Abroad

abroad (adverb) ‘out of the country, in foreign lands’ When this word arrived in Middle English, it soon developed a range of senses, including the modern one, and we find this in Shakespeare, such as at the very end of Macbeth (V.vi.105) when Malcolm expresses his intention to call home ‘our exiled friends abroad’ (i.e. […]

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