More dumbing-down

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 24 18:24:40 UTC 2012


I'm beginning to see "per _head_" instead of "per capita" even though,
IMO, FWIW, this does nothing to increase clarity. <sigh!>

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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