Sunday, August 1, 2010

Not hapax legomenon

From online source:

"First, thanks for pointing out that this wasn't Palin's first use of her invented word."

"What I figure happened is that she was so tickled that she managed to sneak in a long and smart-sounding word in her spot on Fox that she couldn't resist using it again, still utterly clueless that it wasn't a word."

"I'll further note that anyone who reads "all of them" should have already been very familiar with the word "repudiate"; those of us who read "all of them" might flub the pronunciation, but you wouldn't repeat that mistake in print if you were familiar with seeing the word on a printed page."

"It's pretty obvious that Sarah picked up a new word toy and didn't know how to properly operate it before rolling it out in public."

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