Dragaera

OT: bois (was: Sethra Lavode vs. Enchantress of Dzur Mountain)

Mark A Mandel mam at theworld.com
Fri Aug 16 09:43:52 PDT 2002

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