semantic drift: "grow"

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

Sounds like a pro-abortion rights sentiment to me.

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From: Jonathan Lighter
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Subject: [ADS-L] semantic drift: "grow"

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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