At 01:23 AM 6/24/2004, you wrote: >Is "ignorant" = "rude" widespread in the US? If so, maybe it should be in >the standard dictionaries. I've heard it in Carbondale, IL (not far from St. Louis) and, I think, in Detroit. I've always assumed it was an innovation, because nobody who used it was over, maybe, 25. Geoff