Je recuse

[Ronald Butters]

And a good thing, too, cuz it is wrong. "Recuse" means "exlude," not "excuse.".


-----Original Message-----
From: Wilson Gray
Sender: American Dialect Society
Date:         Tue, 5 Oct 2010 22:00:28
Subject:      Re: [ADS-L] Je recuse.

Nobody never explained it to me that way, before! ;-)

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Jonathan Lighter  wrote:
> Yeah, but it's got to be like the same thing as "excused himself," right? I
> mean it's obvious. Judges excuse themselves but we call it recuse
> themselves. Because it's court. It's like more official.

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