floor 'ground'

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

> some people now use "floor" to mean "ground"


I've heard it zillions of times, over the past dekkid, on both scripted and
"reality" TV, as well as zillions of instances of "ground" used to mean
"floor."

There's nothing to be done and I don't care, anymore. :-(


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-Wilson
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