Since when did "siege" mean "to attack"? Siege is from the latin - TopicsExpress



          

Since when did "siege" mean "to attack"? Siege is from the latin sedere, meaning "to sit". A siege is when an army keeps resources from coming into and people from leaving a city or targeted area. On CBS this morning, they used the word siege 4 times, not once correctly. The Kenyan army over the past day has been laying a siege, but when they attacked the mall, that was not a siege. When the Somali terrorists took over the mall, that was never a siege, that was a hostile takeover of a collateral target. Now it is a hostage/kidnapping situation. Please go forth and use siege correctly, lest you look stupid like CBS news.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:42:50 +0000

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