[–] JorgeGT 8y ago ↗ The proof of course is that searching in the corpus of English literature, "in my humble opinion" is found orders of magnitude more than "in my honest opinion": https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=In+my+humble+o... [–] oneeyedpigeon 8y ago ↗ You can use that to back up an argument for the original meaning, but not for what the actual meaning should be today. (BTW, I'm on team 'humble', FWIW)
[–] oneeyedpigeon 8y ago ↗ You can use that to back up an argument for the original meaning, but not for what the actual meaning should be today. (BTW, I'm on team 'humble', FWIW)
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