While I'm on a language-related rant, I hate the way the use of the word "decimate" has devolved. The original definition of the word means to reduce a population by one tenth (hence the prefix deci). However the word has come to mean to reduce a population by a large number and has generally been accepted as such. Yet for a stickler like me, when you hear that "deci" slip out, it's like fingers grating on a chalkboard.