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> > Don't credit Hitler with this policy, the Romans instituted it much earlier
> > and that's how we got the word "decimate".
> >     Dave Peak
> 
> My understanding of "decimation" was that it was a process whereby people
> were lined up and counted and every 10th person was killed.  Does anybody
> know for sure which meaning is the correct one?
> -- 
> Sophie Quigley

Sophie wins.

Mike Gray, whuxlm!mag