Words are forever being repurposed; gay, wicked, sick, heavy… on re-reading HG Wells’ Invisible Man I noticed the following line.

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He lit the dining-room lamp, got out a cigar, and began pacing the room, ejaculating. Now and then he would argue with himself.
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Interesting to see how this line could not be used again but nice to think that words are labelled as dirty by it’s users. I am sure that in school you may have been corrected for using this word and as such it has slowly shifted to an entirely specific use.