For more than four decades I have done the greater part part of my reading (the far greater part - maybe 90 percent) in various shades of English. Only a year o

For more than four decades I have done the greater part part of my reading (the far greater part - maybe 90 percent) in various shades of English. Only a year or two ago did I come across a sentence which somehow suggested that khaki did not necessarily designate the militarily greenish color I had always assumed because that's what it means, period, in my native Danish. Or used to mean. Things may be slipping with the massive encroachment of English into everyday speaking and writing we're seeing these days.