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Wire, Season 5, Episode 1 at the Sun-- reference using dictionary where young journalist admonished for using word evacuate to describe removal of people from building because to evacuate a person is to say to give an enema. If so, should definition reference this usage.
- That's proscriptive. If you can find a published source that advocates this position, we can cite it in Usage notes, but in most US journalism no such distinction is made. When there is a large-scale disaster, news agencies report that people are evacuating or are being evacuated. --EncycloPetey 20:00, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
- See http://www.vulture.com/2008/01/the_wire_backlash_begins_we_di.html . Apparently this usage was controversial till WW2. 95.90.3.119 18:10, 1 January 2013 (UTC)