Re[8]: [tied] Anatolian

At 9:20:51 PM on Monday, October 24, 2005, george knysh
wrote:

> ****GK: I really don't know what you mean by "popular
> usage".

Everyday, man-on-the-street, non-academic, non-technical
usage.

> The word is ambiguous. Your sense (nation=state) is sense
> n.3 in my Webster's dictionary ("the body of inhabitants
> of a country united under a single independent government;
> a state.") [...] I'll grant that n.3 now predominates in
> the mass media, but that is just media usage, not popular
> usage.*****

In this case (as in many others) media usage is a pretty
accurate reflection of (what I've seen of) popular usage.
(I'm assuming that you're using 'media' in the modern
popular sense! <g>)

Brian