Hear hear!
Ian Hodgson
From:
Lashko Susan [
Sent: Friday, 18 November 2005 9:55
AM
To: John Layton;
;
Cc:
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Swamp
Harrier
And let’s save
English lessons for some other venue!!! – rather than a BIRD chatline.
Sue
From:
John Layton [
Sent: Friday, 18 November 2005
9:20 AM
To: ;
Cc:
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.
