Reply to post: Re: Limits of pragmatism

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GruntyMcPugh Silver badge

Re: Limits of pragmatism

I know the popular (incorrect) usage of the word is recorded as such in some inferior dictionaries, but if you want to use a word to describe the greater portion of something being destroyed, there's a perfectly good word for that, it even starts with a 'd' , 'devastate'.

I presume when people say 'decimate' they mean 'devastate' and this is how the modern misuse came about.

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