[LINK] Recovery of universities, libraries and archives from floods

[Stilgherrian]

On 20/01/2011, at 3:31 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> On 20/01/2011 3:20 PM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> Organisations are asked to send details of affected archives.
>> 
> 
> I don't think you mean affected:
> 
> "affected"  adj. 1 pretended, artificial. 2 full of affectation.

I think he does. From the Macquarie Dictionary...

affected1
(say uh'fektuhd)
adjective 1. acted upon; influenced: the affected group.
2. influenced injuriously; impaired; attacked, as by climate, disease or pollution, etc.: *It only takes a small quantity of oil to create a mammoth pollution problem and the affected area is extremely difficult to clean up. –COMMUNITY EXPRESS, 1987... [snip]

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