[Ads-l] New Sense of the Noun "Primary"
Mark Mandel
markamandel at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 11 22:28:48 UTC 2020
A useful observation. But "nationwide individual state..." seems
contradictory. Wouldn't "entire *nationwide season* of individual state
qualifying elections" be more accurate?
MAM
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, 8:12 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
> Probably I should say "The new sense denotes the entire season of
> nationwide individual state qualifying elections for party presidential
> nominations."
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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