Because it's there, Clinton.

The most outrageous one I've heard recently is donor and--choke--donee.

As much as I admire and respect Edwin Newman, the truth is that none of us pedants has a snowball's chance in hell of preventing these changes, no matter how loud we pout. I've just accepted the fact that "enormity" is now just a variant of "bigness" and has pretty much lost its meaning of "great evil"; and that "reticent" now means "reluctant" instead of "taciturn", so the phrase "reticent to speak" no longer belongs to the Department of Redundancy Department. (After all, "naughty" used to mean "awful", and "awful" used to mean "wonderful.")

Aloha (literally, "I see your living breath"),
Mark