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When words become divorced from their original meaning

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What’s in a word… A disinterested judge is ideal; an uninterested one is bored. Painting: The Sleeping Judge by Thomas Couture (1859).

“Purists will tell you the word ‘decimate’ dates back to the Roman practice of killing one in 10, but in common usage it just means…



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