FW: Sarah Palin's "refudiate" (blend: refute + repudiate)

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

I forward below two messages I received today (from Barry Popik and Ben Zimmer).

Gerald Cohen

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From: Barry Popik [mailto:bapopik at aol.com]
Sent: Sun 7/18/2010 6:24 PM
Subject: Sarah Palin's "refudiate" (refute + repudiate)


Someone tell Jonathan Lighter. I didn't see this on ADS-L.
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Barry Popik
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/sarah-palin-refudiates-criticism-declares-self-shakespeare-of-twitter/
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Subject:         refudiate
From:    Jonathan Lighter <[log in to unmask] <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A2%3Dind0611A%26L%3DADS-L%26P%3DR58> >
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Sen. Mike DeWine (R.-Ohio) has urged Democrats to "refudiate the statement" made by John Kerry about Iraq.

  DeWine used the phrase "refudiate the statement" at least twice on this a.m.'s _Fox & Friends_.

  Needless to say, there are several hundred Googlits for "refudiate."

  JL
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 From: Ben Zimmer [mailto:bgzimmer at gmail.com]
Sent: Sun 7/18/2010 6:35 PM
To: Barry Popik

Subject: Re: Sarah Palin's "refudiate" (refute + repudiate)

Some discussion on Language Log:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2463

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