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Has the casual definition really been used for that long? It's hard to overlook the "deci-" portion. Given its popularity, I'll have to get used to it...
It gets even more complicated - you don't use decimated when referring to any fractional portion other than 10%. For example, you don't say "Fifty percent of the neighborhood was decimated." How's that for illogical logic?
It gets even more complicated - you don't use decimated when referring to any fractional portion other than 10%. For example, you don't say "Fifty percent of the neighborhood was decimated." How's that for illogical logic?
Yes, that's what I thought was the correct definition and usage of decimated! One-tenth seemed oddly specific but an informal Internet query suggested a couple of plausible word origins.
If I use decimated in colloquial speech, I will take care to avoid combining it with numbers in the same sentence.
...but have you ever before heard of underwear being referred to as "innerwear"?
This is new terminology as far as I am concerned.
I've never heard that before. I just perused an online store which sold underwear and innerwear. The innerwear collection consisted of shirts and leggings which are meant to be layered. The underwear collection was all panties.
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