A pet peeve of mine is the contemporary usage of ’incredible’, taken to be roughly synonymous with ’amazing’, while its actually shares a root with incredulous,

A pet peeve of mine is the contemporary usage of ’incredible’, taken to be roughly synonymous with ’amazing’, while its actually shares a root with incredulous, and literally implies that what has been conveyed cannot be believed. An ”incredible story” is not one that is astonishing, but one that cannot be taken as factual.