From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:04:04 -0800, Bill Swears   
    wrote in   
      
   in rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   > Catja Pafort wrote:   
      
   >> Brian M. Scott wrote:   
      
   >>> Can you really not say 'We went through the slush pile and   
   >>> culled out enough good stories for an anthology'?   
      
   >> Absolutely not. You can cull the ones that will never make it and   
   >> re-read the rest, but 'cull' always has an undertone of 'discard' -   
   >> otherwise, you select them.   
      
   > You're using a contemporary, popular, definition of cull.  [...]   
      
   I don't see why you think so.  So far as I can see, she and   
   Helen are simply describing current British usage.  As I   
   pointed out a few days ago, the current Concise Oxford   
   recognizes *only* this one meaning, and Mike D., who is   
   familiar with the original broader sense, said that 'it's   
   certainly an old-fashioned usage here if not yet archaic'.   
      
   Brian   
      
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