new post: Blair and Rumsfeld end war on terror

[Dennis Baron]

There's a new post on the Web of Language:

"The British government has decided to drop the phrase "war on
terror" from its official vocabulary list. . . . [and] before leaving
office, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld bluntly repudiated it as
well. . . ."

Did Rumsfeld cut and run?  More about defining slogans at ---

http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage



Dennis


Dennis Baron
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Department of English
University of Illinois
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