A paltry dozen? I wager this august body can double that with ease!

Herewith, an interesting piece on auto-antonyms:

http://www.mentalfloss.com/art...-their-own-opposites

literally, really

original "unchanged" and "new"

clip "to fasten" and "to cut"

show originally meant "to look at"

learn and borrow mean "teach" and "lend" in some dialects

black is thought to come from PIE *bhel- meaning "to shine, flash, burn; shining white and various bright colours"

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Wikipedia has an article on contranyms with (at a quick count) 29 examples.

They've been mentioned fairly often here in the past - this search will show the threads.

Is a contradance just two lines facing one another and doing nothing?

A contradance is a South American rebel group party.

So often I come across them, but of course when put on the spot I can't remember them!