On 06 Jul, 2004, at 10:00 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Still can't find its origins or source of its first use, though. Wonder if
William Safire has done a column of it?
If he has, it's probably wrong.
(Sorry, but Safire is a bit of a hack, in both politics and linguistics. There's a great passage in _The Language Instinct_, where Steven Pinker catches Safire confusing an adjective with a verb in the passive voice.)
- Darcy
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