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Snoopy
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 Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 11:02 am Post subject: The President's English |
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I forget the perpetrator, but one incumbent replaced "normality" with "normalcy", which immediately became part of the American language.
God save the Queen and her English. |
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Snoopy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 11:07 am Post subject: comparatives and superlatives |
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| . . . and I am saddened and alarmed that it took seven postings to uncover the "two syllables ending in -y" rule. |
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guest of Japan
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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| "return to normalcy," Warren G. Harding, Senator from Ohio during the campaign for the election of 1920. Democrat Treasury Secretary William McAdoo described Hardings speeches as "an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea." Harding prefered to call them "bloviations." |
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shenyanggerry
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| BUT 'more unhappy', 'more unfriendly' sounds less forced. |
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