millionaire (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

On Apr 17, 2012, at 6:46 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> It's a good shrubbery... [the following is not meant to be criticism--at
> least, not of Garson]
>
> Two minor points--"nabob" has not been the same since Spiro Agnew.

Not to mention the ADS's own William Safire, self-proclaimed wordsmith of "nabobs of negativism".

LH

> I
> suspect, if you ask an average monolingual American what it means,
> "wealthy individual" is going to be very low on the list of responses.
>

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