And I can't remember who, but a rugby team in the UK kept confusing fans for a while when announcing on social media the good news that players were resigning.

I think they've added the hyphen for newer announcements, but yeah...

I've had personal experience with similar as well, when a ready meal I had said "halfway through, remove from the microwave, lift the film lid, stir, and recover".

English has a whole class of words called contranyms. Which are words with identical pronunciation and spelling, but with opposite meanings.

I.E.

I was bound to a chair, on a train bound for Chicago.

The child cleaved to his mother’s leg, as the butcher cleaved meat from the bone.

Our new quantum scale processors represent a quantum leap in the field.

It’s a truly mad language.

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relevant!