11th September 2010, 12:45 PM
A lot of people lately are saying "precious" where I'd think "precocious" would go. I really don't get this new usage.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)