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
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 revelationnot 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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