Pfranz wrote:
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All too PC for me, Grump. The language is the language and merely wishing it otherwise will not make it change. Your desire to eradicate the phrase from the language may well succeed if you campaign vigorously enough across the entire English-speaking world. I wish you well with it. Good luck!
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Oh dear. I was afraid I'd get this reaction. Anybody who knows me even slightly would tell you that I'm about as un-PC as they come; that's not where I'm coming from with this. And I am campaigning vigorously: my own usage has changed (to "grow two trees from one seed") and I urge the same on all of you!
Cheers, Ch.S.