verbage

[Joel S. Berson]

I took it to be "an attack on the garbage that John McCain chose to
use."  Much more truthful.

Joel

At 9/17/2008 02:04 PM, Doug_Harris wrote:
>'Could be an accent problem: Perhaps she meant, accuyrately, '. . . based on
>garbage.'
>;)
>dh
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>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."
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>Definitely not "verbiage."
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>JL
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