On the Sunday Politics programme, a commentator has just said 'If the LibDems lose five or six seats out of 56 they won't be decimated'. Er...yes they will!
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Ah yes Greatnan, but (one of) the modern meanings of 'decimate', according to the Oxford dictionary, is to 'drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something)':
e.g., public transport has been decimated
To cut by one-tenth is a historical use.
oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/decimate
So the commentator was not wrong,if you accept that losing 5 or 6 seats woulkdn't drastically reduce the Lib Dems' strength.
But you were right too (in a sense).
Jen 
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