refugee, IDP, evacuee

[Jonathan Lighter]

Indeed, David. Indeed.

JL

Barnhart <barnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:
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Lighter wrote:

>It is deeply troubling to me as an educator to see political figures of
various stripes willfully disregarding well known history and trying, from
afflatus alone, to convince the public that journalists and most everybody
else use the word "refugee" in a way appropriate only to the most bigoted
idiots among us.<

This appropriate word is related to another word for gas... flatulence!

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com

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