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"BBC words": Boisterous Bumptious Coinages (in The Vocabulary Forum) by KallehI've loved these words this week. I wonder what William Safire got absquatulate mixed up with?... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Nabobs (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd... and it refers to Spiro Agnew's nattering nabobs of negativism, from speech-writer the late William Safire ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Jonesing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tinmanI don't know the word, either, but here 's what William Safire says about it.Tinman... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Postpositive Adjectives (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafteralliteration?):William Safire Orders Two Whoppers JuniorNEW YORKStopping for lunch at a Manhattan Burger King, New York Times 'On Language' columnist William Safire ordered two "Whoppers Junior ... 'Whopper Juniors,'" Safire told a woman standing in line behind him. "This, of course, is a grievous... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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So to speak (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tinmanWilliam Safire wrote an article about terms such as so to speak, if you will, and as it were. He calls them "deferentialisms" and "verbal stutter-steps. He says rhetoricians call them metanoia or correctio. Tinman... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Are you sure? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Kallehdefinitions.Poor William Safire. In his "On Language" in the NY Times he tells about an OED citation ... : "W. Safire: 'Program murder boards' have been established to insure [sic] that the concept is structured properly." Safire is quite kind, though, in his conclusion: "You know what? The Brits have a... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Terms from Horse Racing (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcraftershoo-in a certain winner; one sure to succeedIn their 1948 National Convention, the Democrats under President Harry Truman were in particular disarray. [details] As a result, Republican Thomas E. Dewey was considered a shoo-in. William Safire, Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in HistoryThe term... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Catechresis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by KallehReviving a thread...quote:as imprecise usage (as "blatant" for "flagrant")This is one imprecise usage that I haven't heard about, though William Safire wrote about it in this Sunday's NY Times ... maybe even flouting morality or the law. Safire said that he came out bluenosedly against the phrase... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Words of Elections and Voting (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafter(1980), concerning a possible October surprise release of the long-term hostages held by Iran. But William Safire reports that the term was used among the Nixon team in the 1968 Nixon/Humphrey election. Safire... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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"BBC words": Boisterous Bumptious Coinages (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafternever sees it today. The eminent William Safire recently made a rare use of this word - and used it... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Redefinitions (in Wordplay) by AmemebaIn William Safire's new book entitled THE RIGHT WORD IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME he offers a number of clever redefinitions of words sent to him by several of his readers. Such as ... .) "signal to center by Japanese quarterback." (Tony Wright) Poor Bill Safire, if he had only known how... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay red states; blue states; battleground states (in Questions & Answers about Words) by wordnerdWilliam Safire's most recent column notes that in US presidential politics, the states that are certainties for the Republican candidate are called "red states", those for the Democratic candididate ... Safire can offer is from October 15, 1992, about three weeks before the election.He traces "battleground... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words A rhetorical question mark? (in Potpourri) by KallehShould a rhetorical question end with a question mark?In Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, William Safire notes, he posed this question: "If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the provence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Words better known as negatives (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafterand exorable. William Safire, New York Times, Feb. 3, 2000Sidenote: The above quote is of course... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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copacetic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tinmanmight as well move on, the other agrees. William Safire (March 29, 1980) thought the word was... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words | » Refine Search » New Search |
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