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The liberal Guardian had an emotive front page story on the initiative under a seven-column headline "Now is the time for courage," and an editorial expressing relief that the Spice Girls had crept into the No.
Wednesday's International Herald Tribune described current efforts to remove "military jargon, acronyms and politically correct euphemisms" that crept into the Indonesian language during the 32-year rule of President Suharto.
Of course, if a researcher tampers with the evidence, making a unilateral, unsupported claim or assumption that a word means something that it does not, then that does not constitute semantic change: it is what is known as dirty work at the crossroads, and M&S are indulging in a bit of mischief by suggesting that semantic change either has taken place or is taking place because they have some evidence that a certain change in usage had crept in.
Preferences have crept back in, shelters are returning (see Slate 's do-it-yourself tax shelter), and figuring out your taxes is more complicated than ever.
The idea of exaggerated masculinity has crept into American popular culture and language, so most Americans have an idea of the meaning of machismo and we find it regularly used by the media.