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Sports taverns are relegating the World Series to the back screens so they can show hockey.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2011

What are known as the Smart Set and so-called polite society, are relegating a great many of our old Anglo-Saxon words into the shade, faithful friends who served their ancestors well.

From How to Speak and Write Correctly by Devlin, Joseph