"icon"

Sun May 5 05:42:45 UTC 2013

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Honestly, I don't think "martyr" or "idol" has anything to do with it.

*Especially* not in the case cited. Victim? Yes. "Icon"?! No!

--
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org