EOTY -- "food-insecure"?

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Dec 8 03:57:52 UTC 2010


I nominate "food-insecure" as the euphemism of the year.  Or perhaps
the quadra-decade -- it appears to go back in Google Books to at
least 1978, and perhaps 1970.

Given to this list by Jon Lighter, along with his definition, on 17
Nov. 2006.  No further discussion here, I think.

Joel

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