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stop over engineering
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The meaning of words can change yes.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-that-used-to-mean-something-different
I understand it for normal words. But for an acronym? About a body of technical research? How are we supposed to refer to the thing that Fielding meant when he coined the term?