Re: [californiadisasters] Firefighter incident/shocked

Very commonly misused word.

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e·lec·tro·cute
[ih-lek-truh-kyoot]
–verb (used with object), -cut·ed, -cut·ing.
1.
to kill by electricity.
2.
to execute (a criminal) by electricity, as in an electric chair.

Origin:
1885–90, Americanism ; electro- + (exe)cute

—Related forms
e·lec·tro·cu·tion, noun

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.

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The teenage daughter of some friends started to tell me about her broken arm
by saying, "I was electrocuted."

I interrupted, "No, you weren't. If you'd been electrocuted you wouldn't be
telling me about it."

(Fact is, she'd received a jolt big enough to contract all her arm muscles
and break bones!)

Same thing as drowning. CPR has never saved a drowning victim, although it
has saved many from being drowning victims.

(And btw, it's "drowning", never "drowneding." Another common mistake.)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith Citrin" <jpcitrin@gmail.com>
To: <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Firefighter incident/shocked

I have been wondering about meaning of the word electrocuted and after
looking it up, I think you meant to say he was nearly electrocuted,
since if he really was he would be dead.

Judy C.

On Oct 15, 2010, at 8:17 AM, randee deason wrote:

>
> The fact finding sheet
>
> On Oct 14, 2010 10:11 PM, "Kim Noyes" <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here is a link to the Green Sheet on the Bodega Incident last
> month in
> > Lake/Napa/Sonoma Unit of CalFire in which a firefighter was
> electrocuted and
> > nearly killed:
> >
> >
http://www.wildlandfire.com/docs/2010/lessons-learned/grsheet-ca-lnu-bodega-
power-line.pdf
> >
> > This comes courtesy of the Hotlist at Wildlandfire.com
> >
> > --
> > Check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/californiadisasters/
> > Read our blog at http://eclecticarcania.blogspot.com/
> > Visit me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/derkimster
>
>

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