On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Chris Olson - SunPS wrote: #If you're saying people can't just get together and change a word #that's already been established, what happened to nauseous? #'Course, it's early now, and I'm probably confused on who's saying #what...:) People don't "just get together and change a word". Nobody plans these changes, much less by committee! They come out of people's usage and their unconscious reaction to other people's usage, just like almost all language change. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel