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>It's a bit like decimate, where the commonly-accepted meaning (and usage) is sigificantly different to the true meaning of "reduce by a tenth". These days (over the last 10 years) the original meaning has been relegated to a second-rate alternative in most dictionaries.
Oh, please! I may be only a stranger here, but even I know that the OED shows citations using the currently-accepted definition of decimate as far back as the 1830s. The change is hardly a recent phenomenon, and if anyone is going to complain about the shift in meaning of decimate, I will feel compelled to introduce that one to a nice woman I know. Shift happens people, get over it.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted skeptic wwh 07/20/02 08:46 PM Re: skeptic Jackie 07/20/02 10:19 PM Re: skeptic FishonaBike 07/21/02 01:24 AM Re: skeptic sjm 07/21/02 03:22 AM Re: skeptic wwh 07/21/02 08:11 PM Re: skeptic AnnaStrophic 07/21/02 08:41 PM Re: skeptic maverick 07/21/02 09:39 PM Re: skeptic consuelo 07/22/02 12:25 AM decimated meanings FishonaBike 07/22/02 10:15 AM Re: decimated meanings TheFallibleFiend 07/22/02 11:17 AM Re: decimated meanings wwh 07/22/02 12:58 PM Re: decimated meanings TheFallibleFiend 07/22/02 01:25 PM Re: decimated meanings wwh 07/22/02 05:44 PM Re: skeptic TheFallibleFiend 07/22/02 10:15 AM Re: skeptic Hyla 07/24/02 04:21 PM
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