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Tue Mar 29 16:19:58 GMT 2005


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Nowadays, however, the item of furniture, on which meals are served and round which boards of directors meet, is no longer de-noted by the word board but by the French Norman borrowing table, and board in this meaning, though still registered by some dictionar-ies, can very well be marked as archaic as it is no longer used in common speech. That is why, with the intrusion of the borrowed ta-ble, the word board actually lost its corresponding meaning. But it was just that meaning which served as a link to hold together the rest of the constituent parts of the word's semantic structure. With its di-minished role as an element of communication, its role in the seman-tic structure was also weakened. The speakers almost forgot that board had ever been associated with any item of furniture, nor could they associate the concepts of meals or of a responsible
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