! DECIMATE
Apr. 1st, 2009 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mik3capOkay people. Please help me with this one. Even PBS's NOVA is wrong on it, and it's worrying me.
Decimate == REDUCE by ONE TENTH. To decimate something is to destroy ten percent of it.
People CONSTANTLY misuse this word. They should be using the word "devastate" instead.
DEVASTATE, not decimate.
You may now return to your previously scheduled program.
Decimate == REDUCE by ONE TENTH. To decimate something is to destroy ten percent of it.
People CONSTANTLY misuse this word. They should be using the word "devastate" instead.
DEVASTATE, not decimate.
You may now return to your previously scheduled program.
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on 2009-04-02 01:39 am (UTC)