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A search accidently led me to this: The National Education Association will announce a new benefit for members in its September newsletter: a $150,000 payout triggered when teachers are victims of trucidationI guessed it right. Can you?.Edit: dear hev: in one of my senile moments, I left out the closing bracket. For URL to find more such words: http://www.spizzquiz.net/index.html
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teachers are victims of [redtrucidation
I got it, Dr Bill, but it might be easier if the red was taken out of the word.
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what does the "red" add to this? as a teacher in these times, I guess I'd better know...
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Redtrucidation wasn't in OneLook at all. Trucidation was listed six times, the first source showing it as being obsolete.
So I wonder: Who pulled this obsolete noun out of the grave? And a grisly one at that...
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hahaha! I am so slow.... haha
ah, yes, trucidation...
grisly is a good word for it.
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In reply to:
For URL to find more such words:http://www.spizzquiz.net/index.html
it all becomes clearer now. man, somebody's got a lot of free time, and I don't mean you, Bill.
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Hansardize, v.(HAN-sir-dize): Wait for page to finish loading, then click word to hear it pronounced
See The Story: or Guess the definition:
(Click definition below and see if you're correct)
1.To prove a person to have formerly expressed a different view.
Both The New York Times and The Washington Post emphatically hansardized President Bush on their front pages Thursday. The two papers explained details of two loans totalling $180,375 with below-prime rates that Harken Energy extended to the President in 1986 and 1988. Bush is now condemning such loans
OK, so now I know what "Hansardize" means, but damned if I can find its origin.
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I found that "Hansard" publishes debates in Canadian government (can't remember correct title) but so far no clue as to how it came to mean proving somebody is changing their story.
And please don't get truculent with me about "red" goofup.
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Hansard's appears to be a Commonwealth tradition. The Mother of Parliaments is minuted by Hansard's and so it seems are many of her bastard spawn, including, at the least, Canada and New Zealand.
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maybe here: http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/faq.htmand I'm certainly non-truculent! in fact, I'm tractorulent!
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