Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
Bizarrely inappropriate, not to mention self-evidently utterly incorrect use of "decimated".
I can only imagine the "journalist" responsible thought it meant the same as devastated because it sounds vaguely similar.
Only in America, I suppose.
Not only in America - the number of articles in UK papers / online who misuse words "because it sounds vaguely similar" makes me despair.