"blood family" = kindred
Beverly Flanigan
flanigan at OHIOU.EDU
Thu Mar 24 22:10:44 UTC 2005
At 03:35 PM 3/24/2005, you wrote:
> From "Studio B," Fox News Channel, ten minutes ago:
>
>"The Schindler family, Terri Schiavo's blood family."
>
>"Blood family" is not in OED, though "blood-kin" is dated to
>1880. Personally, I would have said "birth family," which isn't listed either.
>
>Fox News has been using "blood family" routinely in this case.
>
>JL
Makes it sound more emotionally wrenching??
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