And let’s save English lessons for
some other venue!!! – rather than a BIRD chatline.
Sue
From: John Layton
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Sent: Friday, 18 November 2005
9:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Swamp
Harrier
Philip is basically correct, but in modern English usage
"decimate" has come to be accepted as meaning "to destroy a
great number or proportion of". The earlier meanings "to select
by lot and kill every tenth man" and "to take a tenth of or
from" have become pretty much secondary meanings.
