Word Cranks Pledge Semantic Aid ! (Was: refugees)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Fox & Friends has received numerous e-mails insisting "you should stop using the word 'refugees.'  They are 'displaced persons.' "

"When a city is wiped out, the prescriptivists kick in." -- Old Saying

JL

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