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RE: I had say it because I was afraid no one else would.
Subject:RE: I had say it because I was afraid no one else would. From:"Colin Latham" <colin -dot- latham -at- salland -dot- com> To:"'voxwoman'" <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>, "'Van Boening, Tammy'" <Tammy -dot- VanBoening -at- chartercom -dot- com> Date:Tue, 3 Feb 2009 22:10:00 +0100
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Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:17 PM
To: Van Boening, Tammy
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Subject: Re: I had say it because I was afraid no one else would.
I bet the percentages would be higher if they had an option "I have openly
mocked a sign with spelling or grammar errors"
-Wendy
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Van Boening, Tammy <
Tammy -dot- VanBoening -at- chartercom -dot- com> wrote:
>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28900351/
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> Tammy Van Boening
> Curriculum Developer
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> Subject: Re: I had say it because I was afraid no one else would.
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> In keeping with the topic of the day, I offer "unreconstructed". I would
> have sworn it was a
> Bushism, but it looks like it was coined in 1867. (Perhaps if I got out
> more I would have come
> across this word sooner ;)
>
> Dana W
>
> The Word of the Day for February 3 is:
>
> unreconstructed \un-ree-kun-STRUK-tud\ adjective
> : not reconciled to some political, economic, or social change;
> also
> : holding stubbornly to a particular belief, view, place, or style
>
> Example sentence:
> My uncle, a self-designated unreconstructed liberal who wrote
> frequent
> letters to the editor, was never one to keep his opinions to
> himself.
>
> Did you know?
> The reorganization and reestablishment of the seceded states in the
> Union after the American Civil War is referred to as the
> Reconstruction. In 1867 a writer for Harper's Weekly came up with
> the
> word "unreconstructed" for political candidates not reconciled to
> the
> outcome of the War and the changes enacted during the
> Reconstruction.
> The word immediately caught on with readers and has been used to
> refer to intransigent or dyed-in-the-wool partisans ever since. The
> word has also been used outside of political and social contexts.
> For
> instance, a person might be "an unreconstructed rocker" or "an
> unreconstructed romantic."
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