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Recent leaflet from the Ann Arbor Public Services proudly reports, among other great achievements of local officials, the installation of 130 trees (see the partial scan on the right, top).

Would you believe it? The installation of trees! In my not so short life I’ve planted quite a few trees, I took care of them, I grew up with them. It never occurred to me that I could simply install them.

Should we expect other improvements in the description of our relationship with the world around us? Like, for instance, that vegetarians edit vegetables and omnivores download animals for food?

In the meantime, Webster should be preparing the new "fully revised and updated" dictionary. The example on install (right, bottom) clearly shows that Webster editors lag behind Ann Arbor Public Services.

Ann Arbor Public Services : installation of trees

 2010-02-21 

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