[Lexicog] social change in lexicon

[Fritz Goerling]

  Margaret,
  I  think Bill made a typo and meant "conversational". I can imagine that
  someone is *always* going on about "conservation" but not about
"conversation."
  Fritz Goerling


  On 8/24/05, billposer at alum.mit.edu <billposer at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
  >
  but discovering
  > that I lacked very basic conservational vocabulary.

  That's it - they are *always* going on about conservation.

  Margaret Marks




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