The Meaning Of "Silly"
- This word came from Old English where it meant happy or fortunate. As time passed it then got associated with "piousness" and "holiness" because the innocent are easily taken advantage of and the word "silly" came to signal a person who they deemed weak or helpless.
- In addition to that, the negative associations to the word "silly" increased to the point where it started to mean that the person lacked sophistication thus the emergence of the modern sense of "foolishness".
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