semantic drift: "grow"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Sat Feb 9 14:42:21 UTC 2008


Mike Huckabee has just observed that "We don't need government telling us how to raise our children and grow our families."

  Seems to mean "nurture," not "expand."

  JL


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