Semantic drift: "khaki"

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Sep 19 23:15:24 UTC 2007


At 9/19/2007 03:39 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>FWIW, "Khaki" and "chino" are the same color to me.

You haven't bought chinos in a while!  :-)  They come in all
colors.  (Or do the messages in this chain prove that that is equally
true of khakis?)

Joel

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