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To: Salvation

“Decimate” has long been one of my pet peeves. Sadly, even President Trump has used it to mean “to annihilate” or “to destroy.”

Another pet peeve is “apocalypse,” which means “disclosure” or “revelation”—not “catastrophe.”

9 posted on 01/19/2018 7:59:20 AM PST by Fiji Hill

To: Fiji Hill

Good examples.

12 posted on 01/19/2018 8:00:42 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)

To: Fiji Hill

How about the way "massive" has morphed to mean very large?

A hydrogen atomic nucleus is massive, an earthquake, regardless of it's strength, is not.

68 posted on 01/19/2018 8:38:55 AM PST by misanthrope (Sinister deplorable)

To: Fiji Hill

Another pet peeve is “apocalypse,” which means “disclosure” or “revelation”—not “catastrophe.”

Well, you got me there. Did not know that.

148 posted on 01/19/2018 12:11:29 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)

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