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Our office recently held an 'invacuation' exercise. I'd not come across the word before but its meaning was not hard to guess. Essentially, whereas an evacuation has us leaving the building, during an invacuation we are supposed to gather at a point within the building, in our case in the underground car park. It's used when evacuation wouldn't be appropriate, for instance during a bomb scare nearby. I found this blog post from 2008 about it, and the word appears in several online dictionaries.

Have you come across the word or even taken part in a similar exercise? What do you think of the word?


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I'm sure Kalleh will testify to the accuracy of my remark since she is in the medical profession. An "evacuatioh" is an enema, so an "invacuation" would be a sign of constipation.
 
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An "evacuatioh" is an enema

I assume the h on the end is a typo, or is it to signify their reaction? Eek

I don't think an evacuation of the bowels necessarily involves an enema; it could be produced naturally.


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it could be produced naturally.

If only that were so....
 
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After thinking this over, when you posted that "typo" that I made I couldn't see the typo you referred to since the font that appears on my screen is sans serif and hard for me to see. I didn't realize it at the time but for some reason my spell checker didn't flag that word as incorrect. I tried typing it again, spelling it wrong, and for some reason it still won't mark it as misspelled, even though the spell checker works for other words.
 
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I've not seen it used, but, as you said, its meaning is clear. It reminds me of "inmigration," a bit of jargon among planners, geographers, and such.
 
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After thinking this over, when you posted that "typo" that I made I couldn't see the typo you referred to since the font that appears on my screen is sans serif and hard for me to see. I didn't realize it at the time but for some reason my spell checker didn't flag that word as incorrect. I tried typing it again, spelling it wrong, and for some reason it still won't mark it as misspelled, even though the spell checker works for other words.

Interesting. What browser are you using? My (British English) spullchucker in Chrome marks it quite clearly.


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In the finale of season 1, Homeland series, officials under fire invacuate to a chamber accessed by the tunnels under the Capitol buildings.
 
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Interesting. What browser are you using? My (British English) spullchucker in Chrome marks it quite clearly.

I think it's a glitch in my program. I've gotten several others, so I'm keeping an eye on what eye rite.
 
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We have all these new Emergency Responses, but this isn't one, arnie. We have a "Lockdown," which means to hide under a desk or in a closet or somewhere protected, in case of an active shooter. Another is "Shelter in Place." This is for severe storms, demonstrations that have escalated to violence, extreme life-threatening temperatures (???), explosives or chemical contaminants. Then there is "Fire Emergency," which of course includes fires, but also bomb threats, hostages, electrical outages, falling glass, medical emergencies, storms, telephone outages, odors (???).

I assume our Lockdown is your invacuation?
 
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I assume our Lockdown is your invacuation?

Perhaps, although the idea is that everyone leaves their desk and assembles in one place. We used the underground car park, which can hold everyone who works in the building. The guy who wrote the blog post I linked to wasn't perhaps to lucky: they had to stand around in the stair wells - presumably their building didn't have anywhere suitable for everyone to come together.


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We don't have an invacuation plan for our house. However, in an emergency, everyone is to form a protective cordon around me.
 
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Interesting, I just skimmed the 13 pages again, and under "Sheltering in Place" it says, "This is not the same as going to an underground shelter," which yours seems to be. Indeed, none of the safety instructions mention an underground shelter.

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I don't think the fact that it's underground has any bearing on the matter. I gather that any suitably-sized area would be OK. Our building used to be a large church which was bombed during the war. The façade is still standing and makes an imposing entrance. The old church crypt is now mostly a car park.


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I'm sure Proofreader remembers the old Cold War spoof sign, "In case of attack, hide under desk, place head between legs, and kiss your ass goodbye."
 
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