The sad thing Peter is given the readership of your motoring writer is many folk will now use his "order of magnitude" as the new neat way of expressing the idea he was attempting to convey...
And this is how the meaning of words change..clearly a quantum leap now means for the general populace..a giant step.
I am sure there are many words that have been changed to mean something different..someone must know one but I can't think of one.
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