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<blockquote data-quote="PaulR" data-source="post: 1020150" data-attributes="member: 176256"><p>It's a case of people not knowing exactly what a word means. And then using it in other circumstances which are not really appropriate.</p><p></p><p>For example:</p><p></p><p>Nubile - simply means marriageable. It infers nothing about sexuality or carnality.</p><p></p><p>Epicentre - has a strict meaning in seismology as the point on the Earth's surface immediately above the centre of the earthquake which is invariably underground. It absolutely does not imply an extra degree of precision - in fact as it is sometimes kilometres from the centre it's actually less precise. (This one is a particular bugbear of mine)</p><p></p><p>And I am sure there are many others but with the froth starting to spray from my lips I'll have to stop there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PaulR, post: 1020150, member: 176256"] It's a case of people not knowing exactly what a word means. And then using it in other circumstances which are not really appropriate. For example: Nubile - simply means marriageable. It infers nothing about sexuality or carnality. Epicentre - has a strict meaning in seismology as the point on the Earth's surface immediately above the centre of the earthquake which is invariably underground. It absolutely does not imply an extra degree of precision - in fact as it is sometimes kilometres from the centre it's actually less precise. (This one is a particular bugbear of mine) And I am sure there are many others but with the froth starting to spray from my lips I'll have to stop there. [/QUOTE]
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