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

[Jonathan Lighter]

And today, over 10,000 Googlits....

JL

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>wrote:

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> Subject:      FW: Sarah Palin's "refudiate" (blend: refute + repudiate)
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> I forward below two messages I received today (from Barry Popik and Ben
> Zimmer).
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> 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)
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> 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] <
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> Sen. Mike DeWine (R.-Ohio) has urged Democrats to "refudiate the statement"
> made by John Kerry about Iraq.
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>  DeWine used the phrase "refudiate the statement" at least twice on this
> a.m.'s _Fox & Friends_.
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>  Needless to say, there are several hundred Googlits for "refudiate."
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>  JL
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>  From: Ben Zimmer [mailto:bgzimmer at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sun 7/18/2010 6:35 PM
> To: Barry Popik
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> Subject: Re: Sarah Palin's "refudiate" (refute + repudiate)
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> Some discussion on Language Log:
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> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2463
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