Chris Olson - SunPS writes:
OK, now what if all the dictionary-writers got together and
decided to change "fig" to mean "prune"? Would that make it
right?
If it reflected usage, yes. See how the definition of "nice" mutated
>from a negative one to a positive one, for example.
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{Reagan's} presidency always reminded me of a remark made by a woman to
Heywood Broun following Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown. After the
trauma of Vietnam and Watergate, she said, Secretariat had "restored her faith
in humanity." I like to think Reagan was the Secretariat of the eighties.
- Garry Trudeau