Palin’s a MAVRIK! What’s that?
Cripes. Here’s one of those end-of-the year stories where experts talk about the language in 2008. A dictionary publisher has listed the words that received the highest intensity of lookups over the shortest period.
I’m all for improving vocabulary, but first on the list was BAILOUT, and third was SOCIALISM. If people really needed to look those up, they should also look up PATHETIC in connection with our schools.
Also among the words were BIPARTISAN - really - and MAVERICK, which maybe the candidates wouldn’t have used so often had they known how confusing it was. Heck, I can remember when Maverick was a television show that everybody watched.
While I’m ranting about words here, I’d like to mention an unfortunate byproduct of our financial woes.
If I read or see one more journalist or pundit using variations of “From Wall Street to Main Street,” I may regurgitate over the PRECIPICE, another word lots of folks had to look up in 2008.
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Above: Maverick publicity photo.
Below: Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin and Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain, October 28, 2008. REUTERS/Brian Snyder






























































