Finally, a description of who FWers are and what we do!!!
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From: Wordsmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: A.Word.A.Day--pundit
pundit (PUN-dit) noun also pandit
1. A learned person.
2. A person who offers commentary or judgments as an expert on
a certain topic.
[From Hindi pandit, from Sanskrit pandita (learned).]
"According to a top psychologist, the brain starts working the moment
you're
born and never stops until you become a TV football pundit. I understand
our
psychologist actually reached his conclusion, having studied Mercy Green,
the most famous pundit in the history of punditry. Mercy Green is not the
real name; it's an anagram I'm using so as not to get on the wrong side
of
him."
Grant Us Mercy; Daily Record (Glasgow, UK); Oct 22, 2003.
"This is not entirely unheard of among political columnists, but the
typical Washington pundit is stupefyingly uninformed about economics,
a field in which Krugman is exceedingly well informed."
Russell Baker; The Awful Truth; The New York Review of Books; Nov 6,
2003.
This week's theme: words derived from Sanskrit.
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