"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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shazzbat wrote:

"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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The wood pigeons totally decimate the brassicas if they are not
netted.
"if
you don't net 'em, you don't get 'em"

pedant

You can't *TOTALLY* decimate anything: you either decimate it, or you
don't. (Decimate means kill one in ten.)

/pedant

They came and decimated them ten times :-))

extreme pedantry

That would reduce their numbers by about 65%.


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ten flocks of ten came and simultaneously decimated them.

Steve