verbage

[Doug_Harris]

'Could be an accent problem: Perhaps she meant, accuyrately, '. . . based on
garbage.'
;)
dh


Barely in OED (as a "rare" syn. for "verbiage"), this now means "words."
Gov. Palin (on FNC) has dismissed criticism of Sen. McCain's statement that
"the fundamentals of the economy are strong" by saying that it is "an unfair
attack on the verbage that John McCain chose to use....an attack based on
verbage."

Definitely not "verbiage."

JL




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