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"Things either progress or retrogress."* -- Peter Ueberroth, (re)new(ed) chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
~~~ * from memory, having heard him say something similar to this on NPR this evening.
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Since the name Peter Ueberroth sounds somehow Swiss , I looked up the word: retrogress was already in Webster's of 1913 and got 2600 Google hits..
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Retrogress, as a verb, dates back at least to 1819, per OED. The definition is a simple to move backwards, to go back. Regress (dating from 1552) is defined as to recede from; to return to a subject or into a former state and is listed as obsolete. The definition to move in a backward direction is given as chiefly Astron.
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this way to the Great Egress...
formerly known as etaoin...
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Egress... not to be mixed up with Ogress
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A roundel sable...??? ok, you have me stumped for good
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Things either progress or retrogress
why can't we let them continue unchanged? ok maybe they stagnate and that could be called retrogression.. or maybe we just keep making improvements to keep up with the status quo.
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Heraldic term, matey. Our Faldage is well up on those ones. Look at various shields until you see a roundel in the colour sable (technical heraldic colour, can't remember if it's anything other than black...)
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