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Proboscis length affects the efficiency with which flowers of different depth are exploited (Inouye 1980); bumblebees with long proboscises preferentially exploit flowers with deep corollas, while bumblebees with short proboscises exploit shallow flowers (Heinrich 1976).
What these dauntless defenders of the status quondam fail to detect is that a linguistically fascinating, and utterly inevitable, semantic change is occurring—has already occurred, really—beneath their very proboscises (or proboscides for the classically rigorous).