On Thursday 20 May 2010 09:20:54 Alan McKinnon wrote: > The root word it derives from basically means "to make smaller or > less important".
Actually, in the Mother Tongue, it means "to express disapproval of" (I quote an Oxford English dictionary). > It's not the same thing as "depreciate" or "removed" or "obsolete" or > "disappeared". Indeed, that is most certainly true. -- Rgds Peter.
