Schumer vs. Wash. Times on "fulsome"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Like there was any doubt about what Schumer meant.

"Fulsome" is one of the many shibboleths of purists where their own
arguments can be used against them, i.e., it is one of the many
shibboleths of purists for which it turns out that the meaning condemned
is actually the original, etymological sense of the word (see the OED).

I have e-mailed a letter to the editor to the Washington Times to this
effect.

Fred Shapiro


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