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[Laurence Horn]

> On Oct 16, 2018, at 11:22 AM, Dennis During <dcduring at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Google NGrams shows that *abashedly* occurs with less than 2% of the
> frequency of *unabashedly.*  But it has apparently been around at least
> since the early 19th century.  Langston Hughes used it in his
> autobiography. See entry at Wiktionary
> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abashedly#English> for more.
> 
> -- 
> Dennis C. During
> 

"Abashedly” has been around, but I doubt Fox News’s Mr. Salvas is familiar with it.  I knew Langston Hughes (well, not personally).  Langston Hughes is a friend…well, an icon of mine. Mark Salvas is no Langston Hughes.

LH 

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