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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (197825)	4/3/2021 3:23:16 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 366147

The thing about dictionaries is that they mirror the way people use words more than set the standard for them. (I was well into middle age before I realized that.) Just like literally/hypothetically and decimate/devastate, people use murder and homicide a synonyms--I always thought of them as synonyms as my frame of reference is cop TV shows-- so some dictionaries will naturally have adjusted to that. [In the movie, The Madman and the Professor, they established the original dictionary by gathering from all English speaking countries all the words in use along with examples of their usage. They induced the meanings of the words from actual usage.] As a term of art, "homicide" as manner of death could only mean killing rather than murder given there are only four choices and the other three are way off.