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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":
by 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+opinion%2CIn+my+honest+opinion&year_start=1700&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CIn%20my%20humble%20opinion%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CIn%20my%20honest%20opinion%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=In+my+humble+o...
- oneeyedpigeon 8y agoYou 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)