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To: Reily
Maybe in bureaucratese, but hardly in the vernacular.

I suggest not letting the government change the terms we've been using from childhood.

8 posted on 10/30/2012 3:22:25 PM PDT by x
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To: x

The vernacular calls newts and salamanders lizards!
They most certainly are not!
I refuse to surrender accuracy for common usage.


9 posted on 10/30/2012 3:26:21 PM PDT by Reily (l)
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